2nd Edition
Science for the Curious Photographer An Introduction to the Science of Photography
1. What is photography?
2. What is light?
3. The camera: An introduction
4: Images: What is perspective?
5. Why does a camera need a lens?
6. Elementary optics: How do lenses work?
7. The simple thin lens and what it does
8. How to make lenses that are good enough for photography
9. Coming to terms with real camera lenses
10. Fisheye lenses and how they capture the whole sky
11. What is an equivalent image?
12. How to get really high magnification
13. Do we need filters anymore?
14. The limits of human vision
15. How can color be managed?
16. Image capture and processing
17. What is perceived image quality?
18. The creation and appreciation of art in photography
19. What we see and how we photograph it
20. Appendices
Biography
Charles S. Johnson, Jr. taught chemistry at Yale University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He now uses his scientific background to research and write about the science behind photography. In 2010 he published Science for the Curious Photographer.
