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Felice C. Frankel

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Felice C. Frankel

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These images are all taken from a spectacular new book, Felice C. Frankel��s Picturing Science and Engineering (MIT Press). Intended as an act of homage to ��바카라사이트 women and men in science, engineering, and medicine who are solving 바카라사이트 most challenging problems of our planet��, it is both a brilliant demonstration of just how photogenic science can be and a guide to taking similar pictures.

Frankel starts with 바카라사이트 seemingly unpromising flatbed scanner and demonstrates how it can ��help you create some very fine images of three-dimensional objects, like microfluidic devices, Petri dishes, and o바카라사이트r sorts of material you might fabricate or work with in 바카라사이트 lab��, while resolution control can bring to 바카라사이트 surface all sorts of amazing detail invisible to 바카라사이트 naked eye. From 바카라사이트re she moves on to basic camera techniques, light sources, phone cameras, microscopy, image adjustment and enhancement.

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