Editing Photography (section)

=== Science and forensics ===
{{Further|Forensic photography}}
[[File:Wootton bridge.jpg|thumb|left|[[Wootton bridge collapse]] in 1861]]

The camera has a long and distinguished history as a means of recording scientific phenomena from the first use by Daguerre and Fox-Talbot, such as astronomical events ([[Solar eclipse#Photography|eclipses]] for example), small creatures and plants when the camera was attached to the eyepiece of microscopes (in [[Micrograph|photomicroscopy]]) and for [[macro photography]] of larger specimens. The camera also proved useful in recording [[crime scene]]s and the scenes of accidents, such as the [[Wootton bridge collapse]] in 1861. The methods used in analysing photographs for use in legal cases are collectively known as [[forensic photography]]. Crime scene photos are usually taken from three vantage points: overview, mid-range, and close-up.<ref>Rohde, R.R. (2000). Crime Photography. PSA Journal, 66(3), 15.</ref>

In 1845 [[Francis Ronalds]], the Honorary Director of the [[Kew Observatory]], invented the first successful camera to make continuous recordings of meteorological and geomagnetic parameters.  Different machines produced 12- or 24- hour photographic traces of the minute-by-minute variations of [[atmospheric pressure]], temperature, [[humidity]], [[atmospheric electricity]], and the three components of [[Earth's magnetic field|geomagnetic forces]].  The cameras were supplied to numerous observatories around the world and some remained in use until well into the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite book
| title     = Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph
| last      = Ronalds
| first     = B.F.
| publisher = Imperial College Press
| year      = 2016
| isbn      = 978-1-78326-917-4
| location  = London
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal
| last         = Ronalds
| first        = B.F.
| year         = 2016
| title        = The Beginnings of Continuous Scientific Recording using Photography: Sir Francis Ronalds' Contribution
| url          = http://www.eshph.org/blog/2016/04/19/1642/
| journal      = European Society for the History of Photography
| access-date  = 2 June 2016
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20160613031339/http://www.eshph.org/blog/2016/04/19/1642/
| archive-date = 13 June 2016
| url-status   = live
}}</ref> [[Charles Brooke (surgeon)|Charles Brooke]] a little later developed similar instruments for the [[Royal Observatory, Greenwich|Greenwich Observatory]].<ref>{{cite journal
| journal      = The Illustrated Magazine of Art
| title        = Photographic self-registering magnetic and meteorological apparatus: Invented by Mr. Brooke of Keppel-Street, London
| volume       = 1
| issue        = 5
| pages        = 308–11
| year         = 1853
| url          = https://books.google.com/books?id=DhfnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA309
| doi          = 10.2307/20537989
| jstor        = 20537989
| last1        = Brooke
| access-date  = 13 December 2015
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20160429055213/https://books.google.com/books?id=DhfnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA309
| archive-date = 29 April 2016
| url-status   = live
}}</ref>

Science regularly uses image technology that has derived from the design of the [[pinhole camera]] to avoid distortions that can be caused by lenses. [[X-ray]] machines are similar in design to pinhole cameras, with high-grade filters and laser radiation.<ref>{{Cite journal
| doi       = 10.1007/BF02715917
| title     = Development of single frame X-ray framing camera for pulsed plasma experiments
| journal   = Sādhanā
| volume    = 31
| issue     = 5
| pages     = 613
| year      = 2006
| last1     = Upadhyay
| first1    = J.
| last2     = Chakera
| first2    = J.A.
| last3     = Navathe
| first3    = C.P.
| last4     = Naik
| first4    = P.A.
| last5     = Joshi
| first5    = A.S.
| last6     = Gupta
| first6    = P.D.
| citeseerx = 10.1.1.570.172
| s2cid = 123558773
}}</ref>
Photography has become universal in recording events and data in science and engineering, and at [[crime scene]]s or accident scenes. The method has been much extended by using other wavelengths, such as [[infrared photography]] and [[ultraviolet photography]], as well as [[spectroscopy]]. Those methods were first used in the [[Victorian era]] and improved much further since that time.<ref>{{cite book
| title        = Understanding forensic digital imaging
| author1      = Blitzer, Herbert L.
| author2      = Stein-Ferguson, Karen
| author3      = Huang, Jeffrey
| publisher    = Academic Press
| year         = 2008
| isbn         = 978-0-12-370451-1
| pages        = 8–9
| url          = https://books.google.com/books?id=a0nmdTmHMrIC&pg=PA8
| access-date  = 13 December 2015
| archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20160429132518/https://books.google.com/books?id=a0nmdTmHMrIC&pg=PA8
| archive-date = 29 April 2016
| url-status   = live
}}</ref>

The first photographed atom was discovered in 2012 by physicists at Griffith University, Australia. They used an electric field to trap an "Ion" of the element, Ytterbium. The image was recorded on a CCD, an electronic photographic film.<ref>{{Cite book
| title     = Guinness World Records 2014
| last     = Glenday
| first     = Craig
| year     = 2013
| isbn     = 978-1-908843-15-9
| page     = [https://archive.org/details/guinnessworldrec0000unse_r3e7/page/192 192]
| publisher = Guinness World Records Limited
| url     = https://archive.org/details/guinnessworldrec0000unse_r3e7/page/192
}}</ref>