CS 178 - Digital Photography
Spring Quarter, 2012
Marc Levoy
Handout #2
Here is the current version of the course schedule. It is also available
online at
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178-12/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 Apr 3 |
Image formation
natural & linear perspective, pinholes and lenses, aperture, shutter, motion blur, depth of field, ISO |
London (10th edition), chapter 2 - camera
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Fill out
survey for Photoshop, camera, & section (by Wed 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 5 |
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 8, 11:59pm) (Optional 1-hour tutorials for camera newbies, Friday 10:30-11:30am or 1:15-2:15pm in Gates B02) |
| How digital cameras work | |||
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Week 2: Tue Apr 10 |
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 15, 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 12 |
Optics II: Practical photographic lenses
aberrations & distortion, glare & flare, vignetting, diffraction, lens design, telephoto & zoom lenses |
Flash applets: Depth of Field, Telephoto zoom lenses |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): get to know your camera better, introduction to Photoshop, look at pictures from assignment #1, What is a digital image? |
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Week 3: Tue Apr 17 |
History of photography (part 2) documenting the world, the beginning of photojournalism Composing good photographs |
London, chapter 17 - seeing photographs,
Bryan Peterson, Learning to See Creatively, Ansel Adams, Making of 40 Photographs |
Assignment #3 - macro photography (due Sunday, April 22, 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 19 |
Autofocus (AF)
viewfinders, view cameras, tilt-shift lenses, passive vrs active autofocusing, phase vrs contrast detection Exposure metering (AE) the dynamic range problem, metering technology |
London, chapter 15 - view camera,
London, chapter 16 - the zone system Goldberg, Dark Side of the Lens, 1.11-1.20 Flash applets: Autofocus using phase detection or contrast detection |
Section meetings (walkabout): macro photography in the Stanford cactus garden Meet promptly at B02, bring your camera! |
| Photons, pixels, and bits | |||
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Week 4: Tue Apr 24 |
Sampling and pixels
resolution and human perception, sampling and aliasing, filtering by convolution, sampling vrs quantization |
Moller, Real-Time Rendering, 5.6.1
Flash applet: Spatial convolution |
Assignment #4 - architecture/interiors (due Sunday, April 29, 11:59pm) |
| Thu Apr 26 |
Photons and sensors
how digital sensors work, CCD versus CMOS, microlenses and antialiasing, color sensing technologies |
London, chapter 4 - exposure and sensors, http://learn.hamamatsu.com/articles/digitalimagebasics.html, http://learn.hamamatsu.com/articles/microscopyimaging.html |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): tutorial on image adjustments in Photoshop |
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Week 5: Tue May 1 |
Noise and ISO
sources of noise, SNR, dynamic range, ISO, denoising Image stabilization (IS) avoiding camera shake, optical stabilization technologies |
http://learn.hamamatsu.com/articles/ccdsnr.html |
no weekly assignment, study for your midterm |
| Thu May 3 |
Light field photography
Night photography & astrophotography |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): review for midterm exam (optional) |
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| Mon May 7 | Midterm, 7-9pm, rooms assigned by email | Review slides: What will be on the midterm? | |
| Interregnum | |||
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Week 6: Tue May 8 |
History of photography (part 3)
photography as art, genres, Naturalism, Pictorialism Why is sports photography hard? (and solutions based on computational photography) |
Assignment #5 - still life (due Sunday, May 13, 11:59pm) |
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| Thu May 10 | Take apart a camera !! | Animation of assembling a Canon 10D camera (Matthew Farrell, Michelle Pang, Michael Tom, UC Berkeley) | (No section meetings this week.) |
| Color and lighting | |||
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Week 7: Tue May 15 |
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, Additive versus subtractive color mixing |
Assignment #6 - landscape and nature (due Sunday, May 20, 11:59pm) |
| Thu May 17 |
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 applets: Chromaticity diagrams, Gamut mapping |
Section meetings (walkabout): landscape photography at the Dish (and maybe animals?) |
|
Week 8: Tue May 22 |
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 27, 11:59pm) |
| Thu May 24 |
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 |
| Image processing | |||
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Week 9: Tue May 29 |
History of photography (part 4) photography as a tool, technological improvements, industrial and scientific uses, provoking social reform, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, photographers of the FSA |
London, chapter 8 - digital darkroom, London, chapter 9 - image editing London, chapter 10 - digital printing, London, chapter 11 - organizing and storing |
Assignment #8 - portraiture (due Wednesday, June 6, 11:59pm) |
| Thu May 31 |
In-camera image processing
demosaicing, gamma curves, tone mapping, HDR, denoising and sharpening, compression and file formats |
Flash applet: Gamma correction |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): studio portraits, lighting will be provided |
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Week 10: Tue June 5 |
Panoramas panoramic cameras, stitching, perspective vrs cylindrical History of photography (part 5) the modern age, snapshot photojournalism, post-modernism |
Flash applet: Cylindrical panoramas |
no weekly assignment, study for your final |
| Thu June 7 | (no lecture) |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): review for final exam (optional) |
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| Mon June 11 | Final exam, 7:00 - 10:00pm, Hewlett 200 | ||