Archive of class business

CS 178 - Digital Photography
Spring Quarter, 2014
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.

What's new April 1?

• Handouts:
  • Course outline (HO #1)
  • Course schedule (HO #2)
• Lecture notes:
  • Image formation (begun)
• Reading for next time:
  • London, chapter 2 - camera
  • London, chapter 13 - history of photography
• Other Coursework assigned:
  • Assignment #1 - Bad Photos (due Sunday, April 6, 11:59pm)
• Fill out online survey by Wednesday, April 2 at 10:00pm. See explanation above.
• Optional 1-hour tutorials for camera newbies on Friday, 11-noon or 1:00-2:00pm in Gates B02

What's new April 3?

• Lecture notes:
  • Image formation (finished)
  • 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 next time:
  • London, chapter 2 - camera
  • London, chapter 13 - history of photography
• Other Coursework assigned:
  • Assignment #1 - Bad Photos (due Sunday, April 6, 11:59pm)
• Optional 1-hour tutorials for camera newbies on Friday, 11-noon or 1:00-2:00pm in Gates B02

What's new April 8?

• 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:
  • Assignment #2 - Sports and Action
    (due Sunday, April 13, 11:59pm)
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #1 - look in http://vela.stanford.edu after Tuesday night for your grading task
    (due Sunday, April 13, 11:59pm)

What's new April 10?

• Lecture notes:
  • Optics I: Lenses and apertures (finished)
  • Optics II: Practical photographic lenses (begun)
  • 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:
  • Assignment #2 - Sports and Action
    (due Sunday, April 13, 11:59pm)
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #1 - look in http://vela.stanford.edu after Tuesday night for your grading task
    (due Sunday, April 13, 11:59pm)

What's new April 15?

• 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 12 - seeing photographs
  • Bryan Peterson, Learning to See Creatively
  • Ansel Adams, Making of 40 Photographs
  • Goldberg, Dark Side of the Lens, 1.11-1.20
• Other Coursework assigned:
  • Assignment #3 - Macro Photography (due Sunday, April 20, 11:59pm)
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #2 (see your vela page)

What's new April 17?

• Lecture notes:
  • Autofocus (AF) (except active autofocusing)
  • Exposure metering (AE)
  • Flash applet demonstrating autofocus using phase detection or contrast detection
• Reading for this week:
  • London, chapter 12 - seeing photographs
  • Bryan Peterson, Learning to See Creatively
  • Ansel Adams, Making of 40 Photographs
  • Goldberg, Dark Side of the Lens, 1.11-1.20
• Other Coursework assigned:
  • Assignment #3 - Macro Photography (due Sunday, April 20, 11:59pm)
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #2 (see your vela page)

What's new April 22?

• Lecture notes:
  • 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 27, 11:59pm)
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #3 (see your vela page)

What's new April 25?

• 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 27, 11:59pm)
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #3 (see your vela page)

What's new April 29?

• Lecture notes:
  • Photons and sensors (finished)
  • Noise and ISO
  • Image stabilization (IS) (begun)
• Reading for this week:
  • (none)
• Other Coursework assigned:
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #4 (see your vela page)
  • Study for your midterm! (Monday, May 5, 7-9pm, Cubberly Aud.)
    • 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 1?

• Lecture notes:
  • Image stabilization (IS) (finished)
  • Autofocus (AF) (active autofocusing)
  • Light field photography
  • Night photography & astrophotography
• Reading for this week:
  • (none)
• Other Coursework assigned:
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #4 (see your vela page)
  • Study for your midterm! (Monday, May 5, 7-9pm, Cubberly Aud.)
    • 2 hours, closed book
    • on lectures and assigned chapters in London (without history or composition)
    • See these slides summarizing what will be on the midterm
      

What's new May 6?

• 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 11, 11:59pm)
  • No peer-to-peer grading this week

What's new May 8?

• Lecture notes:
  • Animation of assembling a Canon 10D camera
• Reading for this week:
  • (none)
• Other Coursework assigned:
  • Assignment #5 - still life (due Sunday, May 11, 11:59pm)
  • No peer-to-peer grading this week

What's new May 13?

• 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 5 - 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 18, 11:59pm)
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #5 (see your vela page)

What's new May 15?

• Lecture notes:
  • Color I: trichromatic theory (finished)
  • Color II: applications in photography (begun)
  • Flash applets: Chromaticity diagrams
• Reading for this week:
  • London, chapter 5 - 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 18, 11:59pm)
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #5 (see your vela page)

What's new May 20?

• Lecture notes:
  • Color II: applications in photography (finished)
  • Light and reflection (begun)
  • Flash applets: Gamut mapping
• Reading for this week:
  • London, chapter 10 - 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 25, 11:59pm) --> Remember to turn off Auto-Enhance! <--
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #6 (see your vela page)

What's new May 22?

• Lecture notes:
  • Light and reflection (finished)
  • Photographic lighting
• Reading for this week:
  • London, chapter 10 - 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 25, 11:59pm) --> Remember to turn off Auto-Enhance! <--
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #6 (see your vela page)

What's new May 27?

• Lecture notes:
  • History of photography (part 4)
• Reading for this week:
  • London, chapter 6 - digital darkroom
  • London, chapter 7 - image editing
  • London, chapter 8 - digital printing
  • London, chapter 9 - organizing and storing
• Other Coursework assigned:
  • Assignment #8 - Portraiture and Light (due Sunday, June 1, 11:59pm)
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #7 (see your vela page)

What's new May 29?

• Lecture notes:
  • In-camera image processing (begun)
  • Applet: Gamma correction
• Reading for this week:
  • London, chapter 6 - digital darkroom
  • London, chapter 7 - image editing
  • London, chapter 8 - digital printing
  • London, chapter 9 - organizing and storing
• Other Coursework assigned:
  • Assignment #8 - Portraiture and Light (due Sunday, June 1, 11:59pm)
  • Peer-to-peer grading of assignment #7 (see your vela page)

What's new June 3?

• 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:
  • Deadline for submitting all assignments and peer-to-peer grading is Sunday, June 8 at 11:59pm.
    You must submit all assignments to pass this course.
  • Study for your final exam! (Monday, June 9, 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