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"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. Within the book are specific URLs where readers can view Frankel's online tutorials—visual ""punctuations"" of this printed edition. Additional materials, including tutorials and videos, can be found online at the book's website. Published with the help of funding from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan fund"

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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

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

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

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Felice C. Frankel is an award-winning science photographer whose photographs have appeared in many publications. A research scientist 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).

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