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Other Recent Photography Courses (Digital, Computational)

Digital Photography (2010, Marc Levoy, Stanford, UG)

Computational Photography (2010 Marc Levoy, Stanford, GL)

Art & Science of Photography (Brian Barsky, Berkeley, UG)

Computational Photography (2005, Irfan Essa, Georgia Tech, UG)

Adv Computational Photography (2009, 2008, Fredo Durand, MIT)

Computional Photography (2008, Svetlana Lazebnik, UNC, GL)

Computational Photography (2010, Alexei Efros, CMU, UG)

Computational Photography (2010, Rob Fergus, NY, GL)

Computational Photography (2010, Jesus J. Caban, UMBC, OpenCV)

Experimental Project in Computational Photography (2010, Aalto University)

Links to other courses (2011, Chuck Dyers, Wisconsin)


Books & Other Resources:


General Photography:

Photography
(2010, London, Upton, Stone) ($99-$113 new)

The Basic Book of Photography (5th)
(2003, Grimm, Grimm) ($16.)
(There is a 2009 version focusing on digital that I have not read here) ($17)

Digital Photography Boxed Set
(2009, Kelby, Scott) ($44 set, $13, $17 and $17 each book)

Understanding Photography Field Guide
(2009, Peterson, Bryan) ($17.00)

Understanding Exposure
(2010, Peterson, Bryan) ($16.00)

Ronald Parr's Photography FAQ
(2001-2006, great information and links)

Roger Carter's Photography FAQ
(2010, Check out the photography history)

Wikipedia's Photography

Exposure (Zone System):

The Practical Zone System: For Film and Digital Photography
(2006, Johnson, Chris) ($24)

Photographic Exposure and the Simplified Zone System
(2007, Farzad) ($30)

Wikipedia's Zone System

Lighting:

Light: Science and Magic
(2007, Hunter, Biver, Fuqua) ($30)

Editing Software:

Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers
(2010, Evening, Martin) ($35)

Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction
(2006, Margulis, Dan) ($37)

Photoshop LAB Color
(2006, Margulis, Dan) ($35)

The Gimp
(Free)

paint.net
(2010 Free for Windows)

Sebastian Montabone's Page on Free Photo Software
(2010)

Photo Processing Programming (Development) in camera and off:

Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK)
(fun hack 1 (uses hack2), hack 2, with CHDK)

OpenCV (wikipedia, OpenCV with Python)

Processing (the programming language)

Just PIL

Nokia's FCam

Nokia's Qt SDK

Technical Stuff (Math, Physics & Optics behind Photography):

Schaum's Outlines "Optics"
(1975, Hecht, Eugene) ($14)

Norman Koren's Tutorials (DOF)

Paul van Walree's Optics Photography Resources (DOF)

Wikipedia (Exposure, DOF)

Videos:

 

Papers/Other Resources:

Camera Obscura from National Park Services