Photography for Creators
Stills craft: light, composition, editing — feeds both thumbnails and grids.
- Lectures
- 6
- Total runtime
- 6h 32m
- Attendance minimum
- 3h 16m
- Prerequisites
- None
Lecture Playlist
Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.
- Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4 How a photograph is formed: aperture, shutter, ISO, and depth of field as one linked system 75 min Attended
- Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 5 (04apr16).mp4 Composing good photographs: seeing, simplifying, and placing the subject in the frame 64 min Attended
- Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 16 (18may16).mp4 Photographic lighting: key and fill, hard vs. soft sources, portrait and studio setups, flash 72 min Attended
- Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 13 (04May16).mp4 Color in practice: color temperature, white balancing, RGB spaces and gamut mapping 75 min Attended
- Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 17 (23May16).mp4 The editing pipeline: demosaicing, gamma, tone mapping, HDR, sharpening, and file formats 76 min Attended
- Practicum · working creator My Street Photography Process (with Contact Sheets) Levoy's instruction in Lecture 2 to *work the subject* rather than take one frame, shown in full: a working photographer's entire street session laid out on contact sheets, including the frames that failed 30 min Attended
Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Sean Tucker — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.