Photography Definition and 57 Threads

I've often found myself wishing I could take a serious photograph when a certain view or object catches my eye. When I have tried to take a photo on my iPhone, for example, it never quite captures what really caught my eye or the image I have in my head. Inspired by all the great photos in the...

I wanted to try taking 3 camera images using red, green, and blue filters and combining them as color channels to see what that might look like. A) Should this produce more accurate colors, particularly in low light? B) Do they even sell filters that only let light pass that can activate the...

I’m big into photography and was hoping to find a book of beautiful astrophotography. Any recommendations?

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This question is part photography, part about light (and exposure times), and I assume also involves physics (or the science of light): There is a technique in film (analog) photography called 'flashing' where you pre-expose a piece of photo paper, which cuts down on the exposure time (the...

I came across a youtube video that discusses some aspects of depth of field in photography/videography. Some things that have been said collided with my understanding of DOF. I then had a long discussion with the creator of the video that unfortunately lead nowhere. I'm no scientist, so I lack a...

How did you find PF?: Googling about a double sunrise phenomenon, since I have just photographed and videoed one. I just want to share some photos, and a video, I personally took sitting in the observation deck of a cruise ship between Cabo, San, Lucas, and Ensenada, Mexico, while out at sea...

Hello everyone, I’m not a chemist at all, I studied physics which entailed a fair amount of chemistry in the learning but that was five lives ago. Nowadays I m a photographer, mostly editorial portraits but also fine arts. For my latest project I take pictures of a wide range of phenomena on...

British Isles - a piece of visual history (1/2) TL;DR (too long; didn't read): Old photos of historical sites on the British Isles. Since there seems to be quite a few PF members interested in history, I thought I'd share a couple of old photos of mine of historical sites in the United Kingdom...

I am an artistic photographer and am wondering if others think it is an art or not and why

It appears that many texts on astrophotography and telescopes for amateurs tend to avoid mathematical formulas, as such, they are of little use to do some practical calculations. What I am interested in is: Magnification Image scale Focal length Focal plane and sensor plane! (CCDs!) Focal-ratio...

I am trying to capture corona discharge on metal conductors. I am using a Canon DSLR and it works pretty good. I think there may be light from outside of the visible spectrum being emitted during these discharge events so I would like to see if it's possible to capture this light and actually...

Has the telescopes gotten good enough to photograph an actual disk of any star? Or are they all just points of light? tex

Hello, I would like to jump into close up/macro photography, primarily for insects and arachnids (more precisely I would love to take picture of Trombidiidae and other monsters barely visible to the naked eyes.) I have a point and shoot camera (some panasonic with a huge optical zoom, 16x if I...

Entries can be viewed here. Here is the winner, some bouncing drops with quantum properties:

Hi all, My first post on this forum. I couldn’t think of anywhere better to come than to here with a question I’ve had since a recent trip to Chernobyl! Whilst visiting Pripyat I took several videos. Great care was taken to stay away from any contamination hot spots and we had an experienced...

hi I have two sets of images, one schlieren and the other BOS. I need some ideas to explain the flow and see which one gives better flow properties. The flow is just a jet out of a heat gun. Any help is much appreciated

I was reading my latest Reader's Digest in which appears an article about ultraviolet photography. The article explains that this kind of photography utilises a technique known as ultraviolet induced visible fluorescence. The article says that the technique allows flowers to reveal spectacular...

I have been struggling with focussing my Pentax K S2 using Live view. The image of the Moon (or the Sun, with filter) is too burned out to focus. The photos are OK so the camera takes care of that. Anyway, I have a tedious workaround which involves focussing on a bright star (with bhatinov...

just wondering why no one has made a camera that can truly capture an instant of time. I'm talking about an instant which is defined as an instantaneous moment that has 0 duration. Why do all cameras have shutters that open for a specified amount of time instead of just capturing a true...

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There are lots of amazing photographs of nebula around. The colors contribute greatly to their grandeur. But if we were able to get near enough to a nebula to see it with the naked eye would it possesses the colors we see in published photographs taken by telescopes? Or are the colors in astro...

Posting here, I think someone here would be interested in this:

Hi Found this by googling Plasma Ball, as I am a keen photographer looking to photograph the unusual , to get special effects, Hope you don't mind me being here as not a scientist or student, Anyone interested can take a look at my work on Flickr...

This is actually a question for a project I'm working on for work and thought this would be a great outlet to ask. What are some of your favorite "pro" photographers that specialize in astrophotography or at least have a lot in their portfolio? They don't have to necessarily even deep dive...

Hey, I am embarking on a drive to the arctic circle. I have spent a bit of time googling looking for a kite to pull behind my truck to film the adventure and can't find much useful information. Is there anyone that could design or point me in the direction of a place to design a decent kite to...

4 seconds from start ... vimeo.com/110535098 [ it's time-lapse : "...120 consecutive 30 second exposures ..." , so about 360x normal speed ]

I was wondering If anyone knows if this is possible, or why it might be a silly idea.

Suppose we want to take a picture of a highway at night, see attachments. As far as i understood, whether image is freezed or with this blured moving effect determines by the shutter speed. Short exposure time corresponds to freezed picture, long expisure time to motion effect. I don't...

Louie Schwarzberg has used time lapse and high speed photography and microscopy to look at various aspects of Nature, Life on Earth and Natural Phenomena. http://www.youtube.com/embed/FiZqn6fV-4Y Enjoy!

Dear Forum I'm an experimental photographer. During the last two years I've been developing a technique which I call light plane photography (LPP). LPP is a photographic technique that uses a plane of light and a camera to record photographs with unique optical effects. Here's three...

I have been doing various experiments with my photography and recently built a coil gun. I simply pulled apart a starter-motor solenoid and wrapped the windings around an 8mm tube and fire a short piece of a bolt out of it using a charged 3300uf capacitor and an SCR. None of this is calculated...

What is the most accurate,closest and best photo that exists of an individual atom or molecule? There is the scanning tunneling microscope which is way better than the electron microscope,yet it doesn't photographs them by reflecting light off them,it uses quantum tunneling of electrons.I would...

I found this demonstration fascinating! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoHeWgLvlXI

Hi firstly I am a photographer not a physicist, When taking photos there is always 'noise' in the image, especially at higher ISO. I presumed this is the same noise that we would hear on a radio, or see on a tv? Would it be possible to create a room that blocked out the background radiation...

Hi, (I'm not native in English, sorry for if bad English) Some background: As a programmer I got more and more distance with physics. I bought a US x-ray tube off ebay to step to a hobby project that naturally keeps me on with refreshing physics knowledge. After the tube came, I jumped...

Have scientists ever been able to resolve the disk of a distant star in a photograph besides our own sun?

The other day I posted this in the France thread: I sent the pic to an entomology institute, asking about this behavior and got a quick reply. It is asserted that dragon flies avoid desorientation with keeping the head horizontal during steep manoeuvres. Actually this tilt is from an...

Large Format Photograph Machines usually uses 8x10 inches size negative. Can I make a radar large format camera with using similar or bigger size plate as antenna and when transmitter was a cw radio transmitter ? I know only need of mixing transmitted to received. If this does not work , can...

Remembering this post: Larkspurs pictures are always so rich on color, almost too saturated but especially the dynamic range from light to dark are so well balanced. Too bad she doesn't drop by anymore. So I want to live in that world too and I was going over all my summer pics, like this...

For some years I've had a nagging question about the details of how a circular polarizer, as used by photographers, actually works. After a google search, I see lots of sites saying that the filter consists of a linear polarizer and a quarter wave plate. The wave plate is supposed to...

Hi there, I have a question about photography. We know that in geometric optics, a bunch of parallel rays which going into the len will focus on the focus (a point). But as we see, the image is a set of points on a 2 dimensional plane. It is quite confusing that a focus is only a point...

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you all know about a wonderful site for posting your photography, and I've been using it for a few months now. The feedback I'm receiving from my new hobby is wonderful and constructive, I implore everyone who shares a passion for photography to check it out...

The "butterflies" thread has inspired me to get my act together and take some proper images. I spent a couple hours (!) last night trying to take a picture of a flower, but at the magnifications I am working at, I need the optomechanical equipment in my lab to keep everything stable. To see...

This is what happens to roses after a night in the drizzle. I'm sure, Drizzle, that you'll think of a witty reaxion. :biggrin: Unfortunately, the day was still dull, so I had to tweak contrast to get some dynamics back in the exposure. and sure enough, -you know me- getting in...

Wet foot photography[/color][/size] Wet foot photography is as follows. There's something you want to photograph. The best positon to photograph it from presents a significant risk of ending up in a body of water. You decide to go for it anyway. You can see where this is going... This week's...

I want to take high speed shots. My problem is I don't want to buy an expensive flash, so I thought let me make a sound activated shutter. In other words the moment their is a sound my camera takes a picture. After spending hours on the internet I was only able to find circuits that give me and...

I want to photograph the solar corona and I don't know what type of ccd camera I need to purchase. Can anyone please help me?