Category: Technical Photography (TP)

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Scientific Technical Photography

Technical Photography of Historical Pigments

I’m sharing in this post the Technical Photography images of my Historical Pigments swatches collection painted with gum arabic. I used a Nikon D800 36 MP modified for UV-VIS-IR and the set of filters for multispectral imaging described here. All the images are shot RAW and then edited in Camera RAW. VIS (Visible). Be sure

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Scientific Art Examination

Multispectral Imaging with Fujifilm S5 pro

I had a Fujifilm S5 Pro that I used for multispectral imaging back in Brooklyn. This camera was manufactured specifically for UV-IR forensic photography. I sold it to switch to a Nikon D800. The camera was great, I sold it just because I needed a higher pixel count (I went from 12MP to 36MP) and there were

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infrared reflectography

IIPImage for Multispectral Imaging Documentation

Ruven Pillay – your contact to know more about IIPImage – was so kind to host another set of 8 Multispectral Images. The images hosted on IIPIMAGE are available here and belong to the painting in the figure below. Highlights of the examination are suggested here. Here you can download a report I wrote as an example of

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IRR

Panoramic Infrared Reflectography for painting documentation

I already blogged on using Gigapan Pro Panoramic head with a modified digital camera for multispectral imaging. This blog is about using the same head with an InGaAs camera for fast Panoramic Infrared Reflectography.   Multispectral imaging at the highest resolution possible and in the shortest time is a great advantage for documentation of large collections. There

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bibliography

Bibliography. 25 Scientific and Technical Art Examination readings

I want share with you my list of best readings on Scientific and Technical Art Examination. Friends keep asking me for suggested readings…so, here you are! This is not comprehensive, of course, but, I would say, a good starting point. I don’t mention more technical readings on specific topics, such as pigments identification and analytic

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