Archive of class business

CS 178 - Digital Photography
Spring Quarter, 2012
Marc Levoy

Note: these archives are for historical purposes only. Don't try to use them to access lectures or assignments once they have been moved to this file, as the links are liable to be broken. Instead, use the links in the course home page or course schedule.

Enrolling in this course for Spring 2012

What's new April 3?

Handouts:
- Course outline (HO #1)
- Course schedule (HO #2)
Lecture notes:
- Image formation (part I)
Reading for next time:
- London, chapter 2 - camera
- London, chapter 18 - history of photography
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #1 - Bad Photos (due Sunday, April 8, 11:59pm)
Fill out online survey by Wednesday, April 4 at 11:59pm. See explanation above.
Optional 1-hour tutorials for camera newbies on Friday, 10:30-11:30am or 1:15-2:15pm in Gates B02

What's new April 5?

Lecture notes:
- Image formation (full version)
- Flash applet demonstrating the Variables that affect exposure
- Choosing a camera
- History of photography (part 1): invention and age of portraits
- Extreme photography
Reading for this week:
- London, chapter 2 - camera
- London, chapter 18 - history of photography
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #1 - Bad Photos (due Sunday, April 8, 11:59pm)
Optional 1-hour tutorials for camera newbies on Friday, 10:30-11:30am or 1:15-2:15pm in Gates B02

What's new April 10?

Lecture notes:
- Optics I: Lenses and apertures (partial)
- Flash applet demonstrating the operation of a thin lens (and that lenses perform a 3D perspective transformation)
- Flash applet demonstrating the Gaussian lens formula (including the relationship between focusing a camera and changing its focal length)
Reading for this week:
- London, chapter 3 - lens
- Hecht, Optics, 5.1-5.2 (optional, from the course reader)
Other Coursework assigned:

What's new April 12?

Lecture notes:
- Optics I: Lenses and apertures (finished)
- Optics II: Practical photographic lenses (partial)
- Depth of Field (and its dependence on aperture, focal length, subject distance, and circle of confusion)
Reading for this week:
- London, chapter 3 - lens
- Hecht, Optics, 5.1-5.2 (optional, from the course reader)
Other Coursework assigned:

What's new April 17?

Lecture notes:
- History of photography (part 2) - documenting the world
- Composing good photographs
- Optics II: Practical photographic lenses (finished)
- Flash applet demonstrating Telephoto zoom lenses
Reading for this week:
- London, chapter 17 - seeing photographs
- Bryan Peterson, Learning to See Creatively
- Ansel Adams, Making of 40 Photographs
- London, chapter 15 - view camera
- London, chapter 16 - the zone system
- Goldberg, Dark Side of the Lens, 1.11-1.20
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #3 - Macro Photography (due Sunday, April 22, 11:59pm)

What's new April 19?

Lecture notes:
- Autofocus (AF) (except active autofocusing)
- Exposure metering (AE) (begun)
- Flash applet demonstrating autofocus using phase detection or contrast detection
Reading for this week:
- London, chapter 17 - seeing photographs
- Bryan Peterson, Learning to See Creatively
- Ansel Adams, Making of 40 Photographs
- London, chapter 15 - view camera
- London, chapter 16 - the zone system
- Goldberg, Dark Side of the Lens, 1.11-1.20
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #3 - Macro Photography (due Sunday, April 22, 11:59pm)

What's new April 24?

Lecture notes:
- Exposure metering (AE) (finished)
- Sampling and pixels (begun)
- Flash applet demonstrating spatial convolution
Reading for this week:
- Moller, Real-Time Rendering, 5.6.1 (course reader)
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #4 - Architecture and Interiors (due Sunday, April 29, 11:59pm)

What's new April 26?

Lecture notes:
- Sampling and pixels (finished)
- Photons and sensors
Reading for this week:
- Moller, Real-Time Rendering, 5.6.1 (course reader)
- London, chapter 4 - exposure and sensors
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #4 - Architecture and Interiors (due Sunday, April 29, 11:59pm)

What's new May 1?

Lecture notes:
- Noise and ISO
- Image stabilization (IS) (begun)
Reading for this week:
- (none)
Other Coursework assigned:
- Study for your midterm! (Monday, May 7, 7-9pm, rooms to be assigned by email)
  - 2 hours, closed book
  - on lectures and assigned chapters in London
  - See these slides summarizing what will be on the midterm

What's new May 3?

Lecture notes:
- Image stabilization (IS) (finished)
- Autofocus (AF) (finished)
- Light field photography
- Night photography & astrophotography
Reading for this week:
- (none)
Other Coursework assigned:
- Study for your midterm! (Monday, May 7, 7-9pm, rooms to be assigned by email)
  - 2 hours, closed book
  - on lectures and assigned chapters in London
  - See these slides summarizing what will be on the midterm

What's new May 8?

Lecture notes:
- History of photography (part 3) - photography as art
- Why is sports photography hard? (and what we can do about it using computational photography)
Reading for this week:
- (none)
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #5 - still life (due Sunday, May 13, 11:59pm)

What's new May 10?

Lecture notes:
- Animation of assembling a Canon 10D camera
Reading for this week:
- (none)
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #5 - still life (due Sunday, May 13, 11:59pm)

What's new May 15?

Lecture notes:
- Color I: trichromatic theory
- Flash applets: Introduction to color theory, Color matching, Additive versus subtractive color mixing
Reading for this week:
- London, chapter 7 - color
- Stone, A field guide to digital color, chapter 1
- Minneart, Light and Color in the Outdoors, chapter 11
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #6 - Landscape and Nature (due Sunday, May 20, 11:59pm)

What's new May 17?

Lecture notes:
- Color II: applications in photography (begun)
- Flash applets: Chromaticity diagrams,
Reading for this week:
- London, chapter 7 - color
- Stone, A field guide to digital color, chapter 1
- Minneart, Light and Color in the Outdoors, chapter 11
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #6 - Landscape and Nature (due Sunday, May 20, 11:59pm)

What's new May 22?

Lecture notes:
- Color II: applications in photography (finished)
- Light and reflection
- Flash applets: Gamut mapping
Reading for this week:
- London, chapter 13 - lighting
- Reinhard, HDR Imaging, 2.1-2.2 - on radiometry
- Dorsey, Digital Modeling of Material Appearance, 3 - on reflectance
- Hunter, Light Science and Magic, 7 - including glass
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #7 - Night and Color (due Sunday, May 27, 11:59pm)

What's new May 24?

Lecture notes:
- Light and reflection (finished)
- Photographic lighting
Reading for this week:
- London, chapter 13 - lighting
- Reinhard, HDR Imaging, 2.1-2.2 - on radiometry
- Dorsey, Digital Modeling of Material Appearance, 3 - on reflectance
- Hunter, Light Science and Magic, 7 - including glass
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #7 - Night and Color (due Sunday, May 27, 11:59pm)

What's new May 29?

Lecture notes:
- History of photography (part 4)
Reading for this week:
- London, chapter 8 - digital darkroom
- London, chapter 9 - image editing
- London, chapter 10 - digital printing
- London, chapter 11 - organizing and storing
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #8 - Portraiture and Light (due Wednesday, June 6, 11:59pm)

What's new May 31?

Lecture notes:
- In-camera image processing (begun)
- Applet: Gamma correction
Reading for this week:
- London, chapter 8 - digital darkroom
- London, chapter 9 - image editing
- London, chapter 10 - digital printing
- London, chapter 11 - organizing and storing
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #8 - Portraiture and Light (due Wednesday, June 6, 11:59pm)

What's new June 5?

Lecture notes:
- In-camera image processing (finished)
- Panoramas
- Flash applet: Cylindrical panoramas
- History of photography (part 5)
Reading for this week:
- (none)
Other Coursework assigned:
- Assignment #8 - Portraiture and Light (due Wednesday, June 6, 11:59pm)
- Deadline for submitting all assignments, and adding photos to past assignments, is Sunday, June 10 at 11:59pm.
  You must submit all assignments to pass this course.
- Study for your final exam! (Monday, June 11, 7-10pm, Hewlett 200)
  - 3 hours, closed book, calculators ok but unnecessary
  - on lectures and assigned chapters in London since midterm
  - See these slides summarizing what will be on the exam
  - Final exam practice problems