Chapter 1. Visual Data and Ethics

Visual Data and Ethics

Bacteria colonies (Streptomyces coelicolor) in agarose, day 1 for a longitudinal, colorimetric study. Image acquired using a Leica NZ FL3 stereo microscope with a 1x lens. A SPOT RT camera and SPOT Advanced acquisition software, version 4.6 (Diagnostic Instruments, Sterling Heights, MI) were used for imaging. Color correction, sharpening, cropping, and resampling were done in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended, version 10.1 (Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA). Scale bar = 10mm.

IN THE WORLD OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, images fall broadly into two categories: the original image and the corrected image. The original is ...

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