From the Classroom: Making the Invisible Visible

It can be interesting to look at pictures of things that have no scale. This post was created to share photomicrographs taken by students in the High Magnification Photography class. The theme for the final project in the class was “Against Black”. There are a number of techniques that produce images against black such as fluorescence, DIC, polarized light, reflected light and darkfield to name a few. The assignment required students to produce 8 photographs investigating anything of interest. The photographic requirement was to use at least two techniques and to use at least two different magnifications. The most important criteria was that the subject was displayed a against a field of black.

Microscopy has been a stable in the Photographic Sciences curriculum since 1969. Taught by Professor Michael Peres, this students enrolled were from many programs including fine art, advertising and photo sciences. Shared below is the work from Parker Bryant-Carty, Kristina Kaszei, Leah MacKnight, and Analise Olszewski.