Course Catalog 2010-2011
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Course Catalog 2010-2011

AML-2106 Still Media, 3 cr

Person responsible

Ilkka Alavalkama

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Assignment
 2 h/week
 2 h/week
+2 h/week
+2 h/week


 


 


 
AML-2106 2010-01  

Requirements

Personal portfolio created with personal tutoring and containing all asked process parts: 2 photographic tasks, processed materials, technical and artistic image processing.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

After the course the student is able to photograph and process images for personal semi-professional use and for digital image archives. The student can use the most common tools for basic, studio and achitectural photography. The student can read image metadata and measuring tools in image processing programs and use this data for image processing. Minimum requirement is knowledge for processing standard quality images for presentations and printing.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. The basics of digital cameras and image processing workflows.  Image processing tool add-ons. Lossless RAW image processing.  Digital file recovery. Restoration of image material. 
2. Workflows in picture taking and in digital image processing.  Perspective. Optical aberration corrections. Panorama- and fish-eye photography.  Traditional silver-based photography. 
3. Imaging equipment, materials and accessories.  Light sources, studio lights.  Special photography: close-up photography, digiscoping, endoscopy. 
4. Image post processing, printing and archives. Scanning. Image metadata (EXIF, IPTC, GPS).  Archival life of image materials. Archival space recommendations.  Copyrights and photographers rights. 
5. Image presentation equipment and basics of public image presentation.  Design of image presentation spaces.   

Evaluation criteria for the course

Step-by-step personal projects consisting of technical and artistic imaging tasks (personal tutoring after each step). Finished project folder containing all project parts: credits based on artistic and tehnical aspects.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Summary of lectures     Ilkka Alavalkama            Suomi  

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
AML-2106 Still Media, 3 cr 11020 Still Media, 2 cu  

Additional information

Suitable for postgraduate studies

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
AML-2106 2010-01 Basics of digital photography and image processing. Gives skills to create images for architectural work material, reports and presentations.        

Last modified25.05.2010