Eric Rosenthal

Digital cameras and printers are making photography more ubiquitous and more useful
than ever. This course is a workshop that looks at changing the rules for capturing and
printing digital imagery. By gaining a better understanding of the engineering
fundamentals and limitations of digital photography, students can produce
breathtaking images with all the benefits of digital media but with an image quality
that rivals film. Students experiment using low cost, hands-on tips and tricks in
software and hardware to capture high dynamic range, expanded color, night color,
3D, time lapse, and stop motion images using a digital camera and printer. While using
mostly off-the-shelf tools, these experiments require students to dig down to see the
nitty-gritty of today’s and tomorrow’s technologies for digitally sensing, encoding,
compressing, transmitting and displaying images.