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    This document is a lecture on software tools and light for a course called "Exposing Digital Photography". It discusses available photo organization software and features like folders, ratings, keywords and metadata. It also covers interacting with cameras, processing RAW files, resizing and cropping images in Photoshop. The document explores properties of light as waves and particles. It examines the human eye, focusing on the retina, rods and cones, and how cameras are similar to the eye. Finally, it discusses exposure, shutter speed, and effects like stopping or blending motion using various shutter speed settings.

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    This document is a lecture on software tools and light for a course called "Exposing Digital Photography". It discusses available photo organization software and features like folders, ratings, keywords and metadata. It also covers interacting with cameras, processing RAW files, resizing and cropping images in Photoshop. The document explores properties of light as waves and particles. It examines the human eye, focusing on the retina, rods and cones, and how cameras are similar to the eye. Finally, it discusses exposure, shutter speed, and effects like stopping or blending motion using various shutter speed settings.

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    Computer Science E-7

    Exposing Digital Photography

    Lecture 2: Software Tools & Light


    September 14, 2009
    danallan@mit.edu

    Image from http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicfz8/

    Computer Science E-7

    Cameras
    2

    Day

    Time

    Location

    Mondays

    7:35 to 9:35

    53 Church St. #104

    Wednesdays

    5:30 to 7:30

    53 Church St. #104

    http://cse7.org/sections
    Computer Science E-7

    Section Schedule
    3

    Software Tools

    Available Tools
    4

    Software Tools

    Photo Organization
    5

    Software Tools

    Photo Organization
    6

    Software Tools

    Photo Organization
    7

    Photo Organization

    Folders, Projects
    8

    Photo Organization

    Ratings, Stacks
    9

    Photo Organization

    Keywords
    10

    Photo Organization

    Metadata
    11

    Photo Organization

    My way or the highway!


    12

    Photo Organization

    Backing up
    13

    Around f/5.6, 1/20s, ISO 400

    Photo sequence by Dan Armendariz, 2004

    Software Tools

    Interacting with a camera


    14

    Software Tools

    RAW Processing
    15

    Photo by Dan Armendariz, 2007

    Software Tools

    Resizing and Cropping


    16

    Software Tools

    Photoshop!
    17

    Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation

    Light

    Properties of Waves & Particles


    18

    Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye

    The Eye

    In a nutshell
    19

    Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovea

    The Eye

    Fovea
    20

    Rods

    Cones

    Night vision

    Day vision

    More sensitive to light

    Less sensitive to light

    Not in fovea

    Concentrated in fovea

    22 times as many rods than cones in retina


    Monochromatic stimulus

    Trichromatic (color) stimulus

    Preference to detect motion

    Preference to detect detail

    The Eye

    Rods & Cones


    21

    Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichromacy

    The Eye

    Rods & Cones


    22

    Images from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-lens_reflex_camera

    Cameras

    Similarity to the Eye


    23

    +0 EV

    +1 EV
    Exposure

    +2 EV
    Stops & Exposure Value (EV)
    24

    662s, ISO 100

    Photo by Dan Armendariz, 2009

    Exposure

    Shutter Speed
    25

    10.0s, ISO 100, f/8

    Photo by Dan Armendariz, 2007

    Shutter Speed

    Effects
    26

    2s, ISO 100, f/13

    Photo by Dan Armendariz, 2007

    Shutter Speed

    Effects
    27

    Shutter Speed
    Stopping motion

    28

    Photo by Dan Armendariz, 2004


    1/1250s, ISO 200, f/2.8

    1/320s, ISO 100, f/9.0

    Photo by Dan Armendariz, 2009

    Shutter Speed

    Mixing motion with still


    29

    2.5s, ISO 400, f/5

    Photo by Dan Armendariz, 2006

    Shutter Speed

    Mixing motion with still


    30

    1/1000s, ISO 400, f/5.6

    Photo by Dan Armendariz, 2007

    Shutter Speed

    Stopping motion
    31

    Computer Science E-7


    Exposing Digital Photography

    Lecture 2: Software Tools & Light


    September 14, 2009
    danallan@mit.edu

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