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ELE-304 Elective Year Three Electives

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.

  1. 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 Marc Levoy 2 Peer institution 75 min
  2. Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 5 (04apr16).mp4 Composing good photographs: seeing, simplifying, and placing the subject in the frame Marc Levoy 2 Peer institution 64 min
  3. Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 16 (18may16).mp4 Photographic lighting: key and fill, hard vs. soft sources, portrait and studio setups, flash Marc Levoy 2 Peer institution 72 min
  4. Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 13 (04May16).mp4 Color in practice: color temperature, white balancing, RGB spaces and gamut mapping Marc Levoy 2 Peer institution 75 min
  5. Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 17 (23May16).mp4 The editing pipeline: demosaicing, gamma, tone mapping, HDR, sharpening, and file formats Marc Levoy 2 Peer institution 76 min
  6. 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 Sean Tucker P Practitioner 30 min

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.

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