The authors of these photographs, technical reports and exhibits are students in the Imaging and Photographic Technology program at the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at RIT. To see a larger version of each image or to read a complete report select the thumbnail image.

C 1996 Dean Harrington

Dean is a 1996 graduate of the Imaging and Photographic Technology program. This image was produced as part of a departmental elective course on Scanning Electron Microscopy taught by Dr. Scott Williams.

Details about the photograph: This micrograph depicts the head and upper body portion of the common household cat and dog flea. The image was captured with a ISI Super IIIA scannning electron microscope at a magnification of 200X.

Before placing the subject in the microscope it had to be dried and coated in a vacuum sputtering chamber with a thin layer of AuPb (Gold and Palladium). This made the specimen conductive to the 5,000 volts of accelerating voltage applied on the sample.

Once recorded conventionally on film, the negative was scanned electronically with a LeafScan 45 attached to a MacIntosh Quadra 950 computer and stored digitally.

C 1996 Scarlett Hutson

Scarlett just completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Imaging and Photographic Technology. As of June 1, 1996 she is employed at RB Images in Los Angeles, CA and will be involved in all aspects of photographic and digital media production.

Details about the photograph: As one of her last independent projects she decided she wanted to make a photograph that showed the action of a cork popping from a champagne bottle. To show the action in sequential fashion she used a General Radio Strobotac (many Physics departments have them) flashing at 100 flashes per second to illuminate the action. The camera was a Nikon FM and the lens a 50mm Nikon f/1.4 operated wide open with 400 speed color negative film.

For photography she first advanced all the film to the take-up side of the camera while keeping the lens covered with the lens cap. She then set the camera on a sturdy tripod and pushed in the rewind release button. Operating in a darkened room with a black background behind the bottle, the flashing strobe illuminated the scene. Then, just prior to the cork being pushed up and out of the bottle, she opened the shutter (setting it to "B" and locking it open) and started to rewind the film furiously.

When the cork popped, the individual flashes from the strobe recorded the event sequentially onto the moving film and that is what you see here.