CS 178 - Digital Photography
Spring Quarter, 2011
Marc Levoy
Handout #2
Here is the current version of the course schedule. It is also available
online at
http://graphics.stanford.edu/courses/cs178-11/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 29 |
Image formation
natural & linear perspective, pinholes and lenses, aperture, shutter, motion blur, depth of field, ISO |
London (10th edition), chapter 2 - camera
Flash applet: Variables that affect exposure |
Fill out
survey for Photoshop, camera, & section (by Wed 11:59pm) |
Thu Mar 31 |
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 3, 11:59pm) (No section meetings this week.) |
How digital cameras work | |||
Week 2: Tue Apr 5 |
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 10, 11:59pm) |
Thu Apr 7 |
Optics II: Practical photographic lenses
aberrations & distortion, glare & flare, vignetting, diffraction & sharpness, lens design, telephoto & zoom lenses |
Flash applets: Depth of Field, Telephoto zoom lenses |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): get to know your camera, introduction to Photoshop, look at pictures from assignment #1, What is a digital image? |
Week 3: Tue Apr 12 |
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 17, 11:59pm) |
Thu Apr 14 |
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 |
Section meetings (walkabout): macro photography in the Stanford cactus garden |
Automated camera subsystems | |||
Week 4: Tue Apr 19 |
Autofocus (AF)
viewfinders, view cameras, tilt-shift lenses, passive vrs active autofocusing, phase vrs contrast detection |
London, chapter 15 - view camera,
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 24, 11:59pm) |
Thu Apr 21 |
Exposure metering (AE)
the dynamic range problem, metering technology Image stabilization (IS) avoiding camera shake, optical stabilization technologies |
London, chapter 16 - the zone system |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): tutorial on image adjustments in Photoshop |
Week 5: Tue Apr 26 |
Photons and sensors
how digital sensors work, CCD versus CMOS, microlenses and antialiasing, color sensing technologies Light field photography |
London, chapter 4 - exposure and sensors, http://learn.hamamatsu.com/articles/digitalimagebasics.html, http://learn.hamamatsu.com/articles/microscopyimaging.html |
no weekly assignment, study for your midterm |
Thu Apr 28 |
Noise and ISO
sources of noise, SNR, dynamic range, ISO, denoising Night photography & astrophotography |
http://learn.hamamatsu.com/articles/ccdsnr.html |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): look at photographs from last three weeks, review for midterm |
Mon May 2 | Midterm, 7-9pm, Hewlett 200 | Review slides: What will be on the midterm? | |
Week 6: Tue May 3 |
History of photography (part 3)
photography as art, genres, Naturalism, Pictorialism |
London, chapter 8 - digital darkroom, London, chapter 9 - image editing |
Assignment #5 - still life (due Sunday, May 8, 11:59pm) |
Thu May 5 |
In-camera image processing
demosaicing, gamma curves, tone mapping, HDR, denoising and sharpening, compression and file formats |
London, chapter 10 - digital printing, London, chapter 11 - organizing and storing Flash applet: Gamma correction |
(No section meetings this week.) |
Color and lighting | |||
Week 7: Tue May 10 |
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 15, 11:59pm) |
Thu May 12 |
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 17 |
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 22, 11:59pm) |
Thu May 19 |
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 |
Bonus topics | |||
Week 9: Tue May 24 |
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 |
Assignment #8 - portraiture (due Wednesday, June 1, 11:59pm) |
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Thu May 26 | Take apart a camera !! |
Animation of assembling a Canon 10D camera (Matthew Farrell, Michelle Pang, Michael Tom, UC Berkeley) |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): studio portraits, lighting will be provided |
Week 10: Tue May 31 |
Panoramas panoramic cameras, stitching, perspective vrs cylindrical The Camera 2.0 Project and the Stanford Frankencamera 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 2 | (no lecture) |
Section meetings (in Gates B02): Tues-Thu only, optional, review for final exam |
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Fri June 3 | Final exam, 3:30 - 6:30pm, Hewlett 201 | Review slides: What will be on the final? |