University Lectures on Digital Photography

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Want to take a university-level class on digital photography for free? Former Stanford professor and current Google engineer Marc Levoy has a site containing his complete course materials for a class that he has taught 5 times at Stanford and once at Google.

The 11-week course requires no prior knowledge in photography and is “an introduction to the scientific, artistic, and computing aspects of digital photography,” Levoy writes. “Topics include lenses and optics, light and sensors, optical effects in nature, perspective and depth of field, sampling and noise, the camera as a computing platform, image processing and editing, and computational photography.”

“We will also survey the history of photography, look at the work of famous photographers, and talk about composing strong photographs.”

 

Heres part one the other 16 parts are on the same channel.

 

Get your tinfoil hat ready.