Tired of playing it safe when it comes to exposure For many digital photographers, exposure starts and ends at f/8 and 1/125 sec. But there's a point at which this sensible combination becomes formulaic boring even. Extreme Exposure is the antidote to this rut, liberating amateur shooters to explore the extremes of shutter speed and aperture to capture creative, stunning images.
 
 Use extra-short shutter speeds to freeze movement too quick for the human eye.
 Try ultra-long shutter speeds to capture low-light scenes, fireworks, and star trails in the night sky.
 Shoot with wide-open apertures and Lensbabies for pinpoint focus.
Use ultra-small apertures for virtually limitless depth of field.
 
Packed with techniques and images from expert photographer David Nightingale, as well as standout images from contributing photographers, Extreme Exposure frees you to move beyond conventional picture-taking to capture images that will get noticed.

Includes proceedings Volume 6279.

Originated and sponsored by the Association for High Speed Photography. Reprinted from the 1997 Focal Press publication, this book forms a definitive work on the subject of high speed photography (HSP) and its many exciting innovations in commercial, industrial, and military applications. The material in this book moves progressively from an introduction to and development of HSP, to a detailed examination of illumination and image capture systems, data extraction and image processing in experimental procedures.

Contents

- Foreword

- List of Contributors

- Acknowledgments

- Introduction to high speed photography

- The development of high speed photography

- Lighting for cine and high speed photography

- Synchronization and triggering

- High speed cine systems

- High speed CCD camera technology

- High speed videography

- Smear and streak photography

- Electro-optical camera systems

- Pulsed lasers in high speed imaging

- Rotating mirror and drum cameras

- Data extraction and film analysis

- High speed photography of insects in free flight

- Project design and planning

- High speed photography in ballistics

- High speed photography in detonics and ballistics

- Shock waves from explosions

- Flow visualization

- Industrial applications of high speed photography

- High speed photography in advertising

- High speed filming of natural history

- High speed photography at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

- Applications of high speed photography and video in aircraft and armament

- High speed holography

- Measurement techniques in detonics

- Cameras and control systems in motor transport research

- Combustion processes in engines

- Acknowledgments

- References

- Index

Contents

- Cameras: Electronic, Mechanical, and Unique Systems
- Interferometry, Holography, Schlieren, and Related Systems
- Applications with Temporal Resolution from 10E-3 to 10E-15
- Light Sources
- Recording Media: Film, Video, CCD, and Others