Digital Photography

Relations:

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.

It is not possible to register for the course A7B33DIF if the student is concurrently registered for or has previously completed the course Y33DIF (mutually exclusive courses).

Course guarantor:

Václav Hlaváč

Lecturer:

Václav Hlaváč, Roman Sejkot

Tutor:

Václav Hlaváč, Aleš Němeček, Petr Neugebauer, Roman Sejkot

Supervisor:

Department of Cybernetics

Synopsis:

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:

No prior requirements.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Computer vision vs. digital image processing. Camera. Optics.

2. History of photography. Technique, content.

3. Photographic styles. Fine art and documentary photography.

4. Light and lighting in photography. Special lighting for technical photography.

5. Digital image and its properties. Color and its perception. Color images. Color management between devices.

6. Brightness and geometric transformations. Edges, edge points, focusing

7. The future of photography as a technical and social phenomenon.

8. Fourier transform, preprocessing in the Fourier spectrum.

9. Segmentation for photography, principles allowing, e.g., masking with a lasso, a magic wand. Inpainting.

10. Composition. Theory and psychology of photography.

11. Technical and scientific photography. Copyright law for photographers.

12. Image compression.

13. DTP and commercial software. Philosophy of photography.

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:

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:

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:

Details na https://cw.felk.cvut.cz/wiki/courses/a7b33dif/start (in Czech only)

Further information:

https://cw.fel.cvut.cz/wiki/courses/a7b33dif/start

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

	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	roomT2:A3-s123c Neugebauer P. 09:15–10:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.106) Dejvice roomT2:A3-412 Němeček A. 12:45–13:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.104) Dejvice roomT2:A3-412 Němeček A. 14:30–15:15 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.104) Dejvice roomT2:A3-412 Neugebauer P. 09:15–10:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.106) Dejvice roomT2:A3-s123c Němeček A. 12:45–14:15 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.104) Dejvice roomT2:A3-s123c Neugebauer P. 11:00–12:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.107) Dejvice roomT2:A3-412 Neugebauer P. 11:00–12:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.107) Dejvice
Tue	roomT2:A3-412 Sejkot R. 09:15–10:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.101) Dejvice roomT2:A3-412 Sejkot R. 11:00–12:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.102) Dejvice roomT2:A3-412 Němeček A. 12:45–13:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.103) Dejvice roomT2:A4-405 16:15–17:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.105) Dejvice roomT2:A3-s123c Sejkot R. 09:15–10:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.101) Dejvice roomT2:A3-s123c Sejkot R. 11:00–12:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.102) Dejvice roomT2:A3-s123c Němeček A. 12:45–14:15 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.103) Dejvice roomT2:A3-s123c 16:15–17:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.105) Dejvice roomT2:A3-412 Němeček A. 14:30–15:15 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.103) Dejvice
Wed
Thu	roomJP:B-670 Hlaváč V. Sejkot R. 14:30–16:00 (lecture parallel1) Jugoslávských partyzánů 3
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: