Digital photography is the form photographic form that is most easily
employed in the field and for quantitative study of landscape change. Digital cameras
are increasingly cheaper and images more capable of capture detail. For these reasons
mainly, digital photography is integrated into research studies both qualitatively
(pictorially) or for quantification (measurement). Entire databases are being constructed
using digital cameras, including museum collections, many of which now have a digital
database or gallery associated with them. The digital image is an indispensable tool for
fieldworkers. This chapter comprises of a case study that illustrates how digital
photography can be employed to establish a digital archaeological record based on
photographs taken in the field of headstones located in several urban churchyards
situated within central Oxford.
Keywords: Adobe photoshop, digital cameras, images, pictorial representation,
repeat photography/rephotography, quantification, visual records.
