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Photography and illustration talk, Part 8: Multi-view figures
Link from second slide. Other posts in this series. Reference: Osborn, Henry Fairfield, and Charles C. Mook. 1921. Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias and other sauropods of Cope. Memoirs of the American...
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Photography and illustration talk, Part 9: Perspective and scale bars
The Sauroposeidon stuff is cribbed from this post. For the pros and cons of scale bars in figures, see the comment thread after this post. MYDD is, of course, a thing now. Previous posts in this...
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Photography and illustration talk, Part 10: Figure parts and placement
On that last slide, I also talked about two further elaborations: figures that take up the entire page, with the caption on a separate (usually facing) page, and side title figures, which are wider...
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Photography and illustration talk, Part 11: Maps and territories
That last one really hurts. Here’s the original image, which should have gone in the paper with the interpretive trace next to it rather than on top of it: The rest of the series. Papers referenced in...
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Photography and illustration talk, Part 12: Stereo and 3D
Here’s a working version of that link. Working link. Working links: Falkingham (2012) on photogrammetry for free Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 1 Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 2 Mallison...
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Photography and illustration talk, Part 13: Intro figures
The rest of the series. References Janensch, Werner. 1950. Die Wirbelsaule von Brachiosaurus brancai. Palaeontographica (Suppl. 7) 3: 27-93. Wedel, M.J., and Sanders, R.K. 2002. Osteological...
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Photography and illustration talk, Part 14: Summary figures, and the talk files
The rest of the series is here. As promised, here are the files for the talk, in PPT and PDF formats. Wedel 2014 Photography and illustration lecture (PPT, ~53 Mb) Wedel 2014 Photography and...
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The holotype dorsal vertebra of Dystylosaurus
Now considered a junior synonym of Supersaurus, on very solid grounds. Incidentally, unlike the neural spines of most non-titanosaurian sauropods, the neural spine of this vertebra is not simply a set...
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Mounted skeleton of Emeus crassus
In a back room at the Field Museum, from my visit in 2012. I took a lot of photos of the neck, which nicely records the transition in neural spine shape from simple to bifurcated–a topic of interest...
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Cambrian trilobites from the Marble Mountains, southern California
These animals experienced days less than 23 hours long, and years with close to 400 days.
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Vertebrates and invertebrates of Nova Scotia
Last week I went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the twice-yearly meet-up with my Index Data colleagues. On the last day, four of us took a day-trip out to Peggy’s Cove to eat lunch at Ryer Lobsters. We...
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Death and life in the woodshed
Years ago, the roof of our summer-house suffered some water damage and had to be replaced. So I converted it into a woodshed which I attached to the side of our house. As well the store for our...
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Here’s what I mean about bone colour in photos being misleading
In part 5 of the Supersaurus series, I made the point that my photos of Scap A and Scap B seem to show them as being very different colours, suggesting different preservation. However … I don’t trust...
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More on varying colours of bones
Last time, I noted that photographs of the exact same object, even under the same lighting conditions, can come out different colours. That is one of the two reasons why I am not persuaded that the...
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Nonstandard scale bars for photographing turtles: an international collaboration
Henry and Cheeto This past summer, I got into a Facebook conversation with Steve Kary about turtles and tortoises. He was posting photos of Henry, his Russian tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii, formerly...
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Apatosaurus louisae: shooting from the hip
Here at SV-POW! Towers, we like to show you iconic mounted skeletons from unusual perspectives. Here’s one: Apatosaurus louisae holotype CM 3018, mounted skeleton in the public gallery of the Carnegie...
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A close, fast encounter with a pronghorn
I was in the Oklahoma panhandle in late June for fieldwork in the Morrison with Anne Weil and her crew at the Homestead Quarry. It’s always a fun trip, in part because we see a lot of wildlife out...
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