Picturing Science and Engineering - Hardcover

Frankel, Felice C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262038552 ISBN 13: 9780262038553

Publisher: The MIT Press, 2018

Synopsis

A guide to making scientific photographs for presentations, journal submissions, and covers, featuring step-by-step instructions and case studies, by an award-winning science photographer; illustrated in color throughout.

One of the most powerful ways for scientists to document and communicate their work is through photography. Unfortunately, most scientists have little or no training in that craft. In this book, celebrated science photographer Felice Frankel offers a guide for creating science images that are both accurate and visually stunning. Picturing Science and Engineering provides detailed instructions for making science photographs using the DSLR camera, the flatbed scanner, and the phone camera. The book includes a series of step-by-step case studies, describing how final images were designed for cover submissions and other kinds of visualizations. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, the book encourages the reader to learn by doing, following Frankel as she recreates the stages of discovery that lead to a good science visual.
 
Frankel shows readers how to present their work with graphics―how to tell a visual story―and considers issues of image adjustment and enhancement. She describes how developing the right visual to express a concept not only helps make science accessible to nonspecialists, but also informs the science itself, helping scientists clarify their thinking. The book includes references to Frankel's online tutorials at the book's website―visual “punctuations” of this printed edition―along with how-to videos and other additional materials.

Published with the generous support of Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

About this title

About the Author

Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning science photographer whose photographs have appeared in many publications. A research scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT, she is the author of Envisioning Science (MIT Press), No Small Matter (with G. M. Whitesides), On the Surface of Things (with G. M. Whitesides), and Visual Strategies (with Angela H. DePace).

Review

Massive and beautifully illustrated, the book is a trove of clear and concise recipes in granular detail.

―Nature

Spectacular.... A brilliant demonstration of just how photogenic science can be and a guide to taking similar pictures.

―TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION

Picturing Science and Engineering can help you take better photos and present your work more clearly to your reader or audience.

―EE Times

In a word, remarkable.... It is a fascinating, wonderful volume that will encourage its readers to think about images, their role in science, and how the world sees science and technology. Creative and insightful, the book is an absolutely unique achievement.

―Physics Today

Extraordinary macro and microscale photography is presented in startling, yet harmonious, relation to the principles of graphic design across 450 dazzling pages....The book is essential.

―Cosmos

Edition details

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0262038552
• ISBN 13: 9780262038553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 472