Moving on in photography

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Marc Levoy - Google/Stanford Lectures

Lecture Series
- 18 lectures - each approx 1hr to 1hr 20min
ISSUES
- Some topics run over from one lecture to the next.
- Can’t hear audience questions
- Made in 2016
Course Schedule - with links to videos, Powerpoint slides, readings and assignments


Lecture 1 Outline, Laws of perspective, SLR, Pinholes & lenses, Focus distance, Sensor size, Focal length v viewpoint, Exposure

Slides

Lecture 2 Aperture (cont), Depth of field, Sensitivity (ISO), History Pt 1, Extreme photography, Choosing a camera

Slides 1 Slides 2 Slides 3

Lecture 3 Optics - Lenses & apertures, Refraction, Practical photographic lenses. Depth of field, Macro

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Lecture 4 Optics - Hyperfocal distance, Depth of field, Lens aberrations, Vignetting, Diffraction, Lens Design

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Lecture 5 History, Composing,

Slides 1 Slides 2

Lecture 6 Autofocus, Viewfinders, Manual rangefinder, Tilt shift, Autofocus, Metering, Shooting modes

Slides 1 Slides 2

Lecture 7 Sampling theory, Sharpness, Sampling & Aliasing, Upsizing, Downsizing, ,

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Lecture 8 Camera pixels, Colour, Noise & ISO, ,

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Lecture 9 Night Photography, Tips, Twilight, Cities at night, Starry nights, + lightpainting, Tracking.
Trick & Effect Photography - History, Uses, Techniques,

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Lecture 10 Noise cont., Dynamic range, ISO, Lux, Camera shake, Stabilisation,. - Autofocus cont. Camera build

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Lecture 11 History - photography as art
Sports photography - why is it hard

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Lecture 12 Colour 1 Spectra, Sensitivity, Matching, 3D color spaces, Additive versus subtractive color mixing

Slides 1

Lecture 13 Colour 2 Cylindrical spaces, Chromaticity diagrams, Temperature, White balancing, Standardized RGB spaces, Gamut mapping

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Lecture 14 Photography as a tool, Technological improvements, Industrial and scientific uses, Provoking social reform, Great Depression, Dust Bowl, Photographers of the FSA

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Lecture 15 Radiometry & photometry, Measures of light, Diffuse & specular reflection, BRDFs, Fresnel equations

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Lecture 16 Lighting for portraiture, Studio lighting, Key & fill, Flash photography, Flash-noflash & multi-flash

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Lecture 17 Demosaicing, Gamma curves, Tone mapping, HDR, Denoising and sharpening, Compression and file formats

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Lecture 18 Panoramas Panoramic cameras, Stitching, Perspective vrs cylindrical 
History 5 Modern age, Snapshot photojournalism, Post-modernism

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