This week I wanted to write about a new style of photography that I have recently started playing with, called Light Field photography. A light field camera, also known as a plenoptic camera, captures information about the light field emanating from a scene; that is, the intensity of light in a scene, and also the direction that the light rays are traveling in space. This contrasts with a conventional camera, which records only light intensity. In this first image, the focus is on the little plaque on the table. The first light field camera was proposed by Gabriel Lippman in …