CS 178 - Digital Photography
Spring Quarter, 2009
Marc Levoy
Handout #2
Here is the current version of the course schedule. It is also available
online at
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178-09/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 | Lecture | Reading | Coursework |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tue Mar 31 |
Image formation (part 1)
natural & linear perspective, pinholes and lenses Choosing a camera |
London, chapter 2 - camera |
Fill out
survey #2 for Photoshop, camera, & section (by Wed 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 2 |
Image formation (part 2)
aperture, shutter, motion blur, depth of field, ISO History of photography (part 1) invention of photography, daguerreotypes, the age of portraits Extreme & computational photography |
London, chapter 18 - history of photography |
Assignment #1 - bad photos (due Sunday, April 5, 11:59pm) |
| How digital cameras work | |||
| Tue Apr 7 |
Optics I: Lenses and apertures
lensmaker's formulae, ray tracing, lenses & perspective transforms (applet), aperture, depth of field formulae (applet) |
London, chapter 3 - lens, Hecht, Optics, 5.1-5.2 |
Assignment #2 - Sports & Action (due Sunday, April 12, 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 9 |
Optics II: Practical photographic lenses
aberrations, sharpness and MTFs, lens design, telephoto & zoom lenses (applet), view cameras, Scheimpflug focusing |
London, chapter 15 - view camera | |
| Tue Apr 14 |
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 |
Assignment #3 - macro photography (due Sunday, April 19, 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 16 |
Photons and sensors
how digital sensors work, CCD versus CMOS, microlenses and antialiasing, color sensing technologies |
Moller, Real-Time Rendering, 5.6.1 | |
| Automated camera subsystems | |||
| Tue Apr 21 |
Autofocus (AF)
passive vrs active autofocusing, phase vrs contrast detection Light field photography |
Goldberg, Dark Side of the Lens, 1.11-1.20 |
Assignment #4 - architecture/interiors (due Sunday, April 26, 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 23 |
Image stabilization (IS)
avoiding camera shake, optical stabilization technologies Deconvolution and deblurring History of photography (part 2) documenting the world, the beginning of photojournalism |
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| Tue Apr 28 |
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 30 |
Exposure metering (AE)
the dynamic range problem, gamma and quantization, metering technology and modes, HDR imaging |
London, chapter 16 - the zone system | |
| Mon May 4 | Midterm exam, 7-9pm, TCSEQ 200 | ||
| Interregnum | |||
| Tue May 5 |
Take apart a camera !!
Animation of assembling a Canon 10D camera (Matthew Farrell, Michelle Pang, Michael Tom, UC Berkeley) |
London, chapter 17 - seeing photographs |
Assignment #5 - still life (due Sunday, May 10, 11:59pm) |
| Thu May 7 |
History of photography (part 3)
photography as art, genres, Naturalism, Pictorialism Composing good photographs |
Bryan Peterson, Learning to See Creatively, Ansel Adams, Making of 40 Photographs |
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| Color and lighting | |||
| Tue May 12 |
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 |
Assignment #6 - landscape and nature (due Sunday, May 17, 11:59pm) |
| Thu May 14 |
Color II: applications in photography
cylindrical spaces, chromaticity diagrams, color temperature, white balancing, standardized RGB spaces, gamut mapping |
Minneart, Light and Color...Outdoors, 11 | |
| Tue May 19 |
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 24, 11:59pm) |
| Thu May 21 |
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 |
|
| Image processing | |||
| Tue May 26 |
History of photography (part 4) technological improvements, the industrial age, scientific uses of photography, documenting society, the Great Depression |
London, chapter 8 - digital darkroom |
Assignment #8 - portraiture (due Wednesday, June 3, 11:59pm) |
| Thu May 28 |
In-camera image processing
demosaicing, tone mapping (including HDR), denoising and sharpening, compression and file formats |
London, chapter 9 - image editing | |
| Tue June 2 |
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 |
no weekly assignment, study for your final |
| Thu June 4 | (no lecture) | ||
| Tue June 9 | Final exam, 7-10pm, TCSEQ 200 | ||