G’day s0nicb00m.
Sorry I cannot contribute at the moment (I'm less than a beginner in astro imaging), but I do wish you well with your project. The flash pages look really good so far.
I’m unsure whether your uni assignment is to do with IT or technical imaging, but whatever the connection, I should point out that the term ‘micrography’ which apprears on your forum page is not the correct one for the extension of magnification beyond ‘macrophotography’ … it is ‘photomicrography’.
In the medical/scientific photography field, the usual and correct terms are:
Close-up photography: below about 1 metre distance to x1 magnification
Photomacrography x1 to around x25
Photomicrography: around x25 to the limit of light microscopy, around x1200
‘Photomicrography’ is the process of taking photographs through a microscope or otherwise producing big images of small subjects, but ‘microphotography’ is a process of reducing big subjects to a small image size, as in electronic circuit production.
Ref:
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0950-7671/21/2/107 (Royal Photographic Society, 1944)
It’s best to keep the terms correct, as it provides a measure of uniformity and better word construction when extending descriptions to non-visible radiations, so you get the nicely-sounding range: ‘photo micrography’, UV micrography’ and ‘electron micrography’, rather than the awkward ‘micro-photography’, micro-UV-graphy’ and ‘micro-electron-graphy’.
I note that so many sites have succumbed to using the incorrect word, perhaps because it’s a more ‘attractive’ word and it conforms to what many people believe ‘microphotography’ to be. In many cases the authors do know it’s an incorrect term as they insert ‘(photomicrography)’ after the offending word!
Although the areas of imaging you cover are related to amateur technical and scientific endeavours, I feel you should be following proper professional conventions.
Bt the way, I like your phrase ‘the more extreme forms of natural photography’. Have you looked at this site:
http://www.naturfotograf.com/ ? This fellow really knows his stuff!
