The Physics and Art of Photography, Volume 3

Detectors and the meaning of digital

By (author) John Beaver

Publication date:

21 December 2018

Publisher

Morgan & Claypool Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781643273846

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

This is the third volume in a three-part series that uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics to ask fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art. This volume focuses on the physics and chemistry of photographic light-sensitive materials, as well as the human retina. It also considers the rudimentary nature of digital photography and its relationship to the analog photography that preceded it.

I The Physics of Light Detectors
Detectors and the Characteristic Curve
1.1 The Physics of Photons
1.2 Photoelectric Detectors
1.3 Photochemical Detectors
1.4 Basic Photochemistry
1.5 The Eye as a Detector
1.6 Exposure, Density and the Characteristic Curve
2 Silver-Gelatin Photochemical Detectors
2.1 Black and White Silver Gelatin Emulsions
2.2 Chromogenic Color Emulsions
2.3 Reversal Processed Silver Gelatin Emulsion
2.4 Lumen Process
2.5 Ephemeral Process (EP)
2.6 Instant Film
3 Other Photochemical Detectors
3.1 Daguerreotype
3.2 Wet Collodion, Ambrotype and Tintype
3.3 Cyanotype and Van Dyke Processes
3.4 Platinum and Palladium Processes
3.5 Gum Bichromate
3.6 Anthotypes and Chlorophyll Prints
4 Some Interesting Technical Details
4.1 Reciprocity Failure
4.2 Solarization
5 A Brief Diversion into the Weird World of the Photon
5.1 Young’s Double-Slit Experiment and the Wave Model of Light
5.2 The Photoelectric Effect and The Particle Model of Light
5.3 Young’s Experiment Reconsidered.
6 Digital Photoelectric Detectors
6.1 CCD and CMOS Array Detectors
6.2 The Physics of CCD arrays
6.3 Color Digital Detectors
7 Unusual Detectors and 3-D Photography
7.1 Stereo Photography
7.2 Light-Field Photography
7.3 Autochrome Lumiere Process
7.4 Holography
7.5 Lippmann Process Color Photography

II Photography as an Art and the Meaning of Digital
8 Comparison of Digital and Film Techniques
8.1 Borders and Cropping
8.2 Brightness and Contrast Adjustments
8.3 Dodging and Burning
8.4 Color Darkroom vs. Digital
9 The Digital and the Analog
9.1 Pixels and Granularity
9.2 Resolution
9.3 Signal and Noise
9.4 Digital Photography and the Data Revolution in Astronomy
10 Is Digital Manipulation Cheating?12310.1 Paying One’s Dues
10.2 Honesty
10.3 Retouching
10.4 Digital Filters and Cliche ́
11 The Image, the Object and the Process
11.1 Some Preliminary Ideas
11.2 Four Photographers and a Musician
11.3 Examples from Ephemeral and Lumen Process
11.4 Drawing From Negatives
11.5 TheCamera stupida
12 Towards an Art and Science of Nature
2.1 A Personal Note

A Making EP Negatives from Chromogenic Prints
A.1 EP Accelerator Formula
A.2 Choosing the Paper
A.3 Preparing the Paper
A.4 Washing, Drying and Scanning
B The Optics of the Camera Stupida169C Units, Dimensions and Scientific Notation
C.1 Units and Dimensions
C.2 Scientific Notation