Computer Science E-7: Exposing Digital Photography

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Lectures are held most Mondays from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM in Harvard Hall room 201.

• August 31, 2009
  Lecture 1: Welcome!
  
  Audio: MP3
  Handouts: Sectioning Form | Video Release Form
Slides: PDF
Video: Flash, QuickTime
Links:
• chez pim: Faces from Lesotho (Disposable cameras to Lesotho)
• High-speed SLR shutter videos
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 review by DPReview.com (The type of camera available for loan at Church St.)
• Pinhole photo from class
• September 7, 2009: No Class (Labor Day)
• September 14, 2009
  Lecture 2: Software Tools & Light
  
  Audio: MP3
  Slides: PDF
  Video: Flash, QuickTime
  Links:
  • In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many (New York Times)
  • Photo Tampering Throughout History (Dartmouth)
• September 21, 2009
  Lecture 3: Exposure
  
  Audio: MP3
  Handouts: Aperture and F-number
  Slides: PDF
  Video: Flash, QuickTime
  Links:
  • "Earth-Rise" (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
• September 28, 2009
  Lecture 4: Exposure (continued)
  
  Audio: MP3
  Slides: PDF
  Video: Flash, QuickTime
  Links:
  • "Strobe Trigger Voltages" (Is your flash safe to use on your new camera?)
  • Strobist, "Learn how to light"
• October 5, 2009
  Lecture 5: Optics
  
  Audio: MP3
  Image: Compressed perspective example (El Paso)
  Slides: PDF
  Video: Flash, QuickTime
  Links:
  • DOFmaster.com
  • "What the Heck is Bokeh?"
  • "Dirty lens article" (broken front element)
• October 12, 2009: No Class (Columbus Day)
• October 19, 2009
  Lecture 6: The Histogram
  
  Audio: MP3
  Slides: PDF
  Video: Flash, QuickTime
  Links:
  • Idea: The Histogram as the Image
• October 26, 2009
  Lecture 7: Software Tools (continued)
  
  Audio: MP3
  Video: Flash, QuickTime
• November 2, 2009
  Lecture 8: Assignment Slideshow and Movie Night!
• November 9, 2009
  Lecture 9: Digital Cameras
  
  Audio: MP3
  Slides: PDF
  Video: Flash, QuickTime
• November 16, 2009
  Lecture 10: Digital Cameras (continued)
  
  Slides: PDF
• November 23, 2009
  Lecture 11: Color
• November 30, 2009
  Lecture 12: Artifacts
• December 7, 2009
  Lecture 13: Even More Software Tools
• December 14, 2009
  Lecture 14: Assignment Slideshow & Legalese
• December 21, 2009: No Class (Final Projects Due & Computer Science Fair)