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Shows amateur and professional photographers techniques for photographing mineral, lapidary, and fossil specimens, illustrated with color and b&w photos. After an explanation of the basic concepts and equipment of photography, including medium and large formats, chapters detail techniques for photographing transparent and opaque materials, with advice on lighting techniques, filters, photomicrography, stereophotography, fluorescence, location photography, and slide presentations.
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© I996 Jeffrey A. Scovil ISBN 0-945005-21-0 Library of Congress Catalog Number: 96-75729 All line drawings are by Meredith Edwards except as noted. All photographs are by Jeffrey A. Scovil except as noted. Book design by Karen Groves All Rights Reserved Published by Geoscience Press, Inc. PO. Box 42948 Tucson, Arizona 85733-2948 I0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I No part of this work may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording, nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise copied for public or private use, without written permission of the publisher. Distributed by Mountain Press Publishing Company PO. Box 2399, Missoula, MT 59806 I-800-234-5308 Publisher's Cataloging in Publication (Prepared by Quality Books, Inc.) Scovil, Jeffrey A. Photographing minerals, fossils, and lapidary arts /Jeffrey Scovil -- I st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-945005-2I-0 I. Photography in mineralogy. TR732.S36 I996 I. Title 778.9'95538 QBI96-20195 Manufactured in the United States of America CONTENTS PREFACE ............................................................................................................IX CHAPTER ONE ................................................................................................1 AE