Digital Photography

The course is a substitute for:

Digital Photography (Y33DIF)

Lecturer:

Václav Hlaváč (gar.), Roman Sejkot

Tutor:

Václav Hlaváč (gar.), Lukáš Cerman, Michal Dočkal, Petr Neugebauer, Roman Sejkot, Jan Šochman, Radim Tyleček, 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:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

	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	roomKN:E-230 Sejkot R. 16:15–17:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.101) Karlovo nám. Černobyl K230roomKN:E-230 Tyleček R. 18:00–19:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.102) Karlovo nám. Černobyl K230
Tue
Fri	roomKN:E-230 Dočkal M. 09:15–10:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.103) Karlovo nám. Černobyl K230roomKN:E-230 Cerman L. 11:00–12:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.104) Karlovo nám. Černobyl K230roomKN:E-230 Cerman L. 12:45–14:15 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.105) Karlovo nám. Černobyl K230roomKN:E-230 Neugebauer P. 14:30–16:00 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.106) Karlovo nám. Černobyl K230roomKN:E-230 Neugebauer P. 16:15–17:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.107) Karlovo nám. Černobyl K230roomKN:E-230 Zamarovský P. 18:00–19:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.110) Karlovo nám. Černobyl K230
Thu	roomKN:E-230 Šochman J. 09:15–10:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.108) Karlovo nám. Černobyl K230roomKN:E-230 Dočkal M. 11:00–12:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.109) Karlovo nám. Černobyl K230roomT2:D3-309 Hlaváč V. Sejkot R. 14:30–16:00 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice Posluchárna
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: