DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGING

An Introduction to Photography +

Photography Question?

What's the significance of these two photographs

Photography Question?
Worlds first existing photograph ???

Worlds most expensive photograph 2.7 million

What Will I cover in this Unit?

2 lecturers Gary Bown Claire Sambrook + Guest Speakers
Take Pictures

Photographer

Lecture Plan
1. Introduction + History + Assignment

2. How a Digital Camera Works

3. Understanding Light ,Lenses, F Numbers and

Aperture 4. Image noise, compression & stabilisation 5. Portraiture 6. Commercial Work Stock photography and weddings

Digital Vs Film

Taking Modern photography back in Time

The Retro Photo Trend

HIPSTAMATIC

CAMERABAG

INSTAGRAM

But Thats All I Have ?

Introduction
Whole business of digital capture has boomed in only a few years Film Standard Film (colour negative) made of what what creates the image.? SILVER Silver Halides How did we get images by what process?

Gurney-Mott Theory A process of crystals and impurities & electrons Well to be honest we are still not sure! 1976 lecture from Kodak in 25 years we will have exhausted the major supplies of silver therefore the need for other imaging processes

Stages in the development of the latent image according to the Gurney-Mott theory

Gurney-Mott Theory

Digital sensors are arranged in an ordered grid.

Film grains are scattered randomly in the emulsion.

Potted History of Photography

http://www.nicephore-niepce.com/

Daguerreotype Process

Exposure Time ?

Several Hours
The first permanent photograph was made in Burgundy 1826 by Joseph Nicphore Nipce, building on a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz (1724): a silver and chalk mixture darkens under exposure to light. Nipce and Daguerre refined this process

Calotype Process

TALBOT, William Henry Fox b. 11 February 1800; d. 17 September 1877

Fox Talbot Museum

Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum and Village

Brief History of Cameras

Previous to the 1940s Cameras would have 1 or 2 lenses Image was reversed in the viewfinder

Medium Format TLR (Twin Lens Reflex)

Development of photography by Daguerre and Fox Talbot

Film Twin lens Reflex

History of SLR Camera

SLR displays an un reversed, through the lens image what you see is what you get First: Zeiss Contax in 1949 Nikon F (1959) established SLR as the camera format of choice

Film SLR Camera

Film SLR verses Digital SLR

Today the Digital SLR obvious replacement !? ! Areas film has an advantage High contrast subjects Creative film effects i.e Reciprocity Failure What's different between the cameras?

The Digital Age

A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images on a light-sensitive sensor. Live-preview digital cameras

The Digital Compact Camera

1. Battery 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

compartment: Flash capacitor: Flash lamp: LED: Lens: Focusing mechanism: CCD:

Digital SLR Camera

Heart of the working of the camera largely unknown to the user Essentially:
Sensor & processor that captures Translates Delivers the digital image

Requires little input from the photographer but the camera is capable of much more! There is more to Automatic

Digital Photography
Film SLRs = Film & Darkroom Digital SLRs = world of computers

Photoshop ~ Darkroom

Next Time

Lecture 2
How does a Digital Camera Work ?