CS 178 - Digital Photography
Spring Quarter, 2010
Marc Levoy
Handout #2
Here is the current version of the course schedule. It is also available
online at
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178-10/schedule.html, and will be
continuously updated as changes are made. In particular, lecture titles and
assignment names will become clickable shortly after a lecture is given or an
assignment made. Readings should be completed before the date on which they
appear in the schedule, except for the first week. "London" and "Peterson"
refer to your textbooks; "http" readings are online; all other readings are
from your course reader.
| Date | Lectures (and links to slides) | Readings and applets | Coursework and section meeting |
|---|---|---|---|
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Week 1: Tue Mar 30 |
Image formation
natural & linear perspective, pinholes and lenses, aperture, shutter, motion blur, depth of field, ISO |
London (9th edition), chapter 2 - camera
Flash applet: Variables that affect exposure |
Fill out
survey #2 for Photoshop, camera, & section (by Wed 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 1 |
Choosing a camera
History of photography (part 1) invention of photography, the age of portraits Extreme photography |
London, chapter 18 - history of photography |
Assignment #1 - bad photos (due Sunday, April 4, 11:59pm) (No section meetings this week.) |
| How digital cameras work | |||
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Week 2: Tue Apr 6 |
Optics I: Lenses and apertures
lensmaker's formulae, ray tracing, lenses & perspective transforms, aperture, depth of field formulae |
London, chapter 3 - lens, Hecht, Optics, 5.1-5.2 Flash applets: Thin lens, Gaussian lens formula |
Assignment #2 - Sports & Action (due Sunday, April 11, 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 8 |
Optics II: Practical photographic lenses
aberrations & distortion, glare & flare, vignetting, diffraction & sharpness, lens design, telephoto & zoom lenses |
London, chapter 15 - view camera
Flash applets: Depth of Field, Telephoto zoom lenses |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): get to know your camera, introduction to Photoshop, look at your pictures from assignment #1, What is a digital image? Bring your laptop and camera! |
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Week 3: Tue Apr 13 |
Sampling and pixels
display and printing, human perception, sampling and reconstruction, aliasing, prefiltering, and postfiltering |
London, chapter 4 - exposure and sensors, http://learn.hamamatsu.com/articles/digitalimagebasics.html, http://learn.hamamatsu.com/articles/microscopyimaging.html Flash applet: Spatial convolution |
Assignment #3 - macro photography (due Sunday, April 18, 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 15 |
Photons and sensors
how digital sensors work, CCD versus CMOS, microlenses and antialiasing, color sensing technologies |
Moller, Real-Time Rendering, 5.6.1 |
Section meetings (walkabout): macro photography in the Stanford cactus garden Meet promptly at B02, bring your camera! |
| Automated camera subsystems | |||
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Week 4: Tue Apr 20 |
Autofocus (AF)
viewfinders, view camera movements, passive vrs active autofocusing, phase vrs contrast detection, Schiempflug focusing |
Goldberg, Dark Side of the Lens, 1.11-1.20
Flash applets: Autofocus using phase detection or contrast detection |
Assignment #4 - architecture/interiors (due Sunday, April 25, 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 22 |
Image stabilization (IS)
avoiding camera shake, optical stabilization technologies History of photography (part 2) documenting the world, the beginning of photojournalism Deconvolution and deblurring |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): tutorial on image adjustments in Photoshop Bring your laptop! |
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Week 5: Tue Apr 27 |
Noise and ISO
sources of noise, SNR, dynamic range, ISO, denoising Night photography & astrophotography |
http://learn.hamamatsu.com/articles/ccdsnr.html |
no weekly assignment, study for your midterm |
| Thu Apr 29 |
Exposure metering (AE)
the dynamic range problem, gamma and quantization, metering technology and modes, HDR imaging (capture & display) |
London, chapter 16 - the zone system |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): look at photographs from last three weeks, review for midterm Bring your laptop and your questions! |
| Mon May 3 | Midterm exam, 7-9pm, Braun Aud. | Review slides: What will be on the midterm? | |
| Interregnum | |||
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Week 6: Tue May 4 |
History of photography (part 3)
photography as art, genres, Naturalism, Pictorialism Composing good photographs |
London, chapter 17 - seeing photographs |
Assignment #5 - still life (due Sunday, May 9, 11:59pm) |
| Thu May 6 |
Take apart a camera !!
|
Bryan Peterson, Learning to See Creatively, Ansel Adams, Making of 40 Photographs |
(No section meetings this week.) |
| Color and lighting | |||
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Week 7: Tue May 11 |
Color I: trichromatic theory
color spectra, color sensitivity, color matching, 3D color spaces, additive versus subtractive color mixing |
London, chapter 7 - color, Stone, A field guide to digital color, 1 Flash applets: Introduction to color theory, Color matching, Chromaticity diagrams, Color mixing |
Assignment #6 - landscape and nature (due Sunday, May 16, 11:59pm) |
| Thu May 13 |
Color II: applications in photography
cylindrical spaces, chromaticity diagrams, color temperature, white balancing, standardized RGB spaces, gamut mapping |
Minneart, Light and Color...Outdoors, 11 Flash applet: Gamut mapping |
Section meetings (walkabout): landscape photography at the Dish (and maybe animals?) Meet at Lag gate to Dish, Bring your camera! |
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Week 8: Tue May 18 |
Light and reflection
radiometry & photometry, measures of light, diffuse & specular reflection, BRDFs, Fresnel equations |
Reinhard, HDR Imaging, 2.1-2.2, Dorsey, Modeling...Material Appearance, 3 |
Assignment #7 - night and color (due Sunday, May 23, 11:59pm) |
| Thu May 20 |
Photographic lighting
lighting for portraiture, studio lighting, key & fill, flash photography, flash-noflash & multi-flash |
London, chapter 13 - lighting, Hunter, Light Science and Magic, 7 |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): look at landscape photographs, advanced editing in Photoshop Bring your laptop! |
| Image processing | |||
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Week 9: Tue May 25 |
History of photography (part 4) photography as a tool, technological improvements, the industrial age, scientific uses, provoking social reform, the Great Depression |
London, chapter 8 - digital darkroom |
Assignment #8 - portraiture (due Wednesday, June 2, 11:59pm) |
| Thu May 27 |
In-camera image processing
demosaicing, tone mapping (including HDR), denoising and sharpening, compression and file formats |
London, chapter 9 - image editing Flash applet: Gamma correction |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): studio portraits, lighting will be provided Busy session, bring your camera, be on time! |
|
Week 10: Tue June 1 |
Panoramas panoramic cameras, stitching, perspective vrs cylindrical History of photography (part 5) the modern age, snapshot photojournalism, post-modernism |
London, chapter 10 - digital printing, London, chapter 11 - organizing and storing Flash applet: Cylindrical panoramas |
no weekly assignment, study for your final |
| Thu June 3 | (no lecture) |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): Tues-Thu only, optional, review for final exam Bring your questions! |
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| Mon June 7 | Final exam, 7-10pm bldg-room 420-040 | Review slides: What will be on the final? | |