Digital Photography

The course cannot be taken simultaneously with:

Digital Photography (A7B33DIF)

The course is a substitute for:

Digital Photography (A7B33DIF)

Lecturer:

Václav Hlaváč (gar.), Roman Sejkot

Tutor:

Václav Hlaváč (gar.), Lukáš Cerman, Michal Dočkal, Martin Dolejší, Miroslav Macík, Petr Neugebauer, Lukas Mathias Novosad, Peter Zamarovský

Supervisor:

Department of Cybernetics

Synopsis:

Lectures are focused on construction of digital camera, principals of digital record, memory cards and data formats, basic techniques and graphics software of picture editing , prepress and printing technologies. and basic photography styles.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

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. Color and its perception. Color images. Color management.

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:

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:

Study materials:

Gonzales R.C., Woods R.E.: Digital image processing, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004.

Šonka M., Hlaváč V., Boyle R.D.: Image processing, analysis and machine vision, PWS Boston, 1999.

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Web a multimedia (compulsory elective course)