Digital Photography
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A7B33DIF | Z,ZK | 5 | 2P+2L | Czech |
- Garant předmětu:
- Václav Hlaváč
- Lecturer:
- Václav Hlaváč, Roman Sejkot
- Tutor:
- Václav Hlaváč, Aleš Němeček, Petr Neugebauer, Roman Sejkot
- Supervisor:
- Department of Cybernetics
- Synopsis:
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The subject teaches the student how to photograph. The lectures cover both artistic and craft aspects of photography. Lectures will also cover digital image processing, the technology background, camera construction, image acquisition and about are focused on construction of digital camera, principles needed for artistic, documentary purposes. The laboratory part of the subject will teach the student how to work in photo studio using a DSLR camera (digital single-lens reflex). In the second part of the term the students will learn how to use PhotoShop for photographs post-processing. The student concludes the laboratory part by submitting a series of 10 photographs depicting a selected topic from two offered options. The students are encouraged to submit their series of photographs to the student competition evaluated at the beginning of the examination period.
- Requirements:
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No prior requirements.
- Syllabus of lectures:
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1. History of photography. Technology and content. Author's legislation.
2. Photographic styles. Artistic and documentary photography.
3. Illumination in photography. Special illumination for technical photography.
4. Composition.
5. Philosophy and psychology in photography.
6. Technical and scientific photography.
7. DTP and photography. Commercial software.
8. Future of Photography.
9. Image capturing, geometry, optics. Construction of a camera. Digital image and its properties.
10. Brightness and geometric transformations.
11. Fourier transformation. Sampling theorem. Preprocessing in frequency domain.
12. Preprocessing, convolution, smoothing and sharpening.
13. Segmentation for photography, principles of lasso and magic wand.
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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1. Functions of digital camera. Free creation. Assessing of photographs.
2. Basics of studio work. Exponometry.
3. Technical photography. Still life. Portrait.
4. Exterior. Architecture. Reporting.
5. DTP and photography. Export and exploitation of photographs. Author's legislation.
6.-7. Small photographic project.
8. File formats in photography, Photoshop, channels, masks.
9. Color management from calibration to minilab.
10. Geometric transformations, cropping, selection tools.
11. Curves - histogram, contrast, HSV. Image filtering.
12. Processing of RAW images.
13. Retouching in digital photography.
- Study Objective:
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The subject connect artistic and technological view on (digital) photography. Lectures cover both theoretical and practical aspects. The subject is lectured by two persons, by the artistic photographer and by the researcher in computer vision.
- Study materials:
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Michael Freeman: The Photography Bible, Ilex Press, 2018
Milan Šonka, Václav Hlaváč, Roger Boyle: Image Processing, Understanding, and Machine Vision, 4th edition Cengage Learning 2015, pp. 912 (1st edition Chapman & Hall, London 1993; 2nd edition PWS Boston, 1998, 3rd edition Thomson, Toronto 2008; Chinese translation 2003).
- Note:
- Further information:
- https://cw.fel.cvut.cz/wiki/courses/a7b33dif/start
- Time-table for winter semester 2023/2024:
- Time-table is not available yet
- Time-table for summer semester 2023/2024:
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06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri - The course is a part of the following study plans:
During a review of study plans, the course Y33DIF can be substituted for the course A7B33DIF.
The requirement for course A7B33DIF can be fulfilled by substitution with the course Y33DIF.