There is (or can be) quite a bit for math in photography. Inverse square law, field of view, depth of field including the circle of confusion, the Scheimpflug principle, focal length changes with diopters, f-stop calculations for bellows use, etc. Just look on the web for photography formulas (or formulae), and I think you'd find everything you want. Andrew On 3/10/2010, "David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On Wed, March 10, 2010 07:57, jonathan turner wrote: > >> I've been asked to do some work in a school that involves using >> photography >> to help with learning maths. I'm fairly hopeless at maths so am very >> unsure >> of how to proceed. >> >> The project is centred around the construction of a new library building, >> which we are going to take pictures of, but have to find some sort of >> mathematical aspect to the photography to help with their learning. >> >> I was thinking of something to do with symmetry/geometry etc but other >> than >> that have really no clue as to how to bring mathematical concepts into it. >> Obviously mathematics and photography are two quite different disciplines, >> I'm sure there must be plenty of crossover points but I'm really >> struggling >> to see them. > >For example, trying to determine real-world dimensions based on >photographs. For simple square-on shots, that gets you basic ratios. For >anything else, that gets you perspective calculations (more complex >ratios) as well. > >However, it's easy enough to go in with a tape measure to your own >library; makes this an obviously-artificial exercise, which aren't the >best for motivating students. > >-- >David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ >Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ >Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ >Dragaera: http://dragaera.info > > >
