Course Schedule

Here is the the course schedule. In the leftmost column are links to the lecture videos. In the second column are links to the lecture slides (as PDF files). In the third column are links to the applets. In the fourth column are links to the assignments. The video, applet, and assignment links are also available in the left sidebar.

Readings: "London" and "Peterson" are books worth buying, and are available on Amazon. For London, the 11th edition is assumed. Unfortunately, some material present in the 10th edition was omitted from the 11th edition. This material is designated as "10e" in the schedule. The other readings are from a course reader I assembled for the Stanford course, but cannot make available to the public due to copyright restrictions. I'm leaving these listings in place, in case you want to track them down on Amazon or a library. See the bottom of this page for complete citations.

[Google Drive blocks access to these videos if too many people have recently played them. If a video hangs, they are available

as a playlist on YouTube. In that case, come back here for the lectures slides, available as PDF files linked into the table below.

Google Drive also prohibits downloading files (videos, PDFs, .swfs) from incognito windows unless 3rd-party cookies are enabled.

Finally, the videos on this site include some material and sound tracks that are suppressed on YouTube to avoid copyright issues.

The use of this material in my lectures falls under fair use, but YouTube doesn't have a good mechanism for handling this case.]

References

London, Stone, and Upton, Photography (11th edition), Pearson / Prentice Hall, 2011. 10th edition better if you can find it.
Bryan Peterson, Learning to See Creatively, Watson-Guptill, 1988 (or any later edition).
Eugene Hecht, Optics (4th ed.), Pearson / Addison-Wesley, 2002, chapter 5.1-5.2 (pp. 149-171) - geometrical optics.
Tomas Moller et al., Real-Time Rendering (3rd ed.), AK Peters, 2008, Chapter 5.6.1 (pp. 117-124) - sampling and filtering theory.
Norman Goldberg, The Dark Side of the Lens, Academic Press, 1992, sections 1.11-1.20 (pp. 35-50) - autofocus, etc.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little Brown '83, esp. pp. 40-43, 102-106, 107-111, 162-165.
Maureen Stone, A field guide to digital color, AK Peters, 2003, chapter 1 (pp. 1-19) - color vision.
M.G.J. Minneart, Light and Color in the Outdoors, Springer, 1993, chapter 11 (partial) (p. 259-298) - light and color of the sky.
Reinhard et al., HDR Imaging, Elsevier, 2006, chapter 2.1-2.2 (pp. 19-28) - radiometry & photometry.
Dorsey et al, Digital Modeling of Material Appearance, Elsevier, 2008, chapter 3 (pp. 27-46) - observation and classification.
Hunter and Fuqua, Light Science and Magic (2nd ed.), Focal, 1997, Chapter 7 (partial) (pp. 142-162) - case study of glass.