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Tuesday (Room C Campbell) |
Thursday (Room 105 Campbell) |
1
8/24 |
Lecture: Making Images with Light .
- Topics
- Historical background of light-based image making.
- Reading
- CDD Chapter 1: Silver to Silicon.
- Projects
- Handouts
- Course Description
- Project 1
- File Naming
- Questionnaire of Fundamentals
- Camera Survey
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Lab: Basic tools
- Questionnaire of Fundamentals Due
- Camera Survey Due
- Work
- Crop and compose exercise.
- Tonal range exercise.
- CDD 134-145.
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2
8/31 |
Lecture: Fundamentals of Digital Imaging
- Topics
- Capture, processing, and distribution.
- Basics of digitization
- File formats.
- Reading
- CCD Ch 2 pp. 49-54. File formats
- Projects
- Project 1 Due
- Project 2 Assigned
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Lab: Layers; web page introduction.
- Work
- Layers exercise.
- Creating and posting a web page with images.
- Projects
- Project 2 Due
- Project 3 Assigned
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3
9/7 |
Lecture: Fundamentals of Photography
- Topics
- Aperature, shutter speed, and exposure.
- Properties of film and image sensors.
- Aperture and depth of field.
- Reading
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Review 1:
- Project 3 Due
- Project 4 Assigned
- Digital display.
- 12:30-2:30, Room 405 (East Addition)
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4
9/14 |
Lecture: Color Theory and Control
- Topics
- Numeric color models
- Curves
- Controlling color with curves and channels.
- Controlling color with Camera RAW files.
- Reading
- CDD Chapter 7: Color Correction. Pay particular attention to The Power of Curves, starting on p. 246.
- Notes
- Bring camera to lab on Thursday.
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Lab: Camera controls
- Project 4 Due
- Project 5 Assigned
- Shooting scavenger hunt.
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5
9/21 |
Lecture: Static Montage: Masks and Modes
- Topics
- Layer masks.
- Layer blending modes
- Montage techniques.
- Notes
- Bring book to lab on Thursday.
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Lab: Layers, Masks, and Retouching.
- Project 5 Due
- Project 6 Assigned
- Image combination.
- Color control.
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6
9/28 |
Guest Lecture:
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Lab: Selections and masks
- Project 6 Due
- Project 7 Assigned
- Selections methods
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7
10/5 |
Reading Days |
Lab: Web Site Exercise.
- Project 7 Due
- Multi-page gallery.
- Page layout and linking.
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8
10/12 |
Lecture: Images in Transition: Dynamic Montage
- Topics
- Flash, symbols and keyframing.
- Moving elements.
- Cross-dissolve.
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Lab:
Flash exercise.
- Mid-review preparation assigned
- Project 8 Assigned
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9
10/19 |
Review 2: During class time, Room 405
Final project distributed
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10
10/26 |
Lecture: Filters:
- Topics
- How filters work.
- Tracing edges with cutom filters.
- Unsharp mask
- Lens correction in architectural photography.
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Individual meetings: |
11
11/2 |
Lecture: Channel Blending and Lab color:
- Topics
- Separating color and contrast operations.
- Using blend modes for photographic effects.
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Lab: Filters and channel blending. |
12
11/9 |
Lecture: Web Display of Photographs
- Topics
- Organizing large image collections.
- Batch process tools.
- Site design.
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Individual meetings: |
13
11/16 |
Lecture: Looking and
Learning |
Lab: Work session, mat cutting |
14
11/23 |
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Thanksgiving |
15
11/30 |
Mount exhibit
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Review of Final Projects :
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16
12/7 |
Demount exhibit
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Classes end |