Online Digital Photography Course

Digital Photography allows you to use image editing software to apply special effects, and gain quality control over your pictures. 

You will:

• Find out the equipment you need to move to digital photography. 
• Understand computer specifications and factors affecting computer performance for digital imaging.  
• Learn to transfer an image from a digital camera onto your computer.
• Be able to process digital pictures and output them.
• Understand scanners and image editing software.
• Be able to utilise your camera to take great digital photographs.
• Learn the basic principles of photographic composition.
• Find out about image formats and types of files.

There are 11 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction To Digital Technology
   • How images are captured and stored
   • categories of equipment & software
   • scope of applications
      
2. Equipment
   • Getting started; deciding what you need
   • CCD's
   • Image Sizes
   • Raster Images
   • Video Cards
   • Colour depth
   • Computer terminology etc.
      
3. Digital Technology
   • Colour
   • resolution
   • sensors (how technology enables digital images to be captured).
      
4. Digital Cameras
   • Image formation
   • lenses
   • camera stability
   • one shot cameras
   • Three shot cameras
   • terminology (eg.DPI, DVD, Bit, EDO RAM, Plug In etc)
      
5. Taking Photographs
   • Principles of Photo Composition
   • Creating effects
   • Default Setting
   • Compression of Data
   • Dithering
   • Halftones etc
      
6. Scanners
   • Techniques which can be used for digitally capturing images from film photographs
   • or graphics
      
7. Uploading Images
   • How digital images can be transferred effectively from a camera (or scanner) onto another device (eg. a computer, video monitor, television set, etc).
      
8. The Digital Darkroom
   • Techniques that can be used to process digital photographs within a computer to achieve improved or changed images
      
9. Compositing & Imaging
   • Production & manipulation of images
   • How digital photos can be manipulated and changed to produce altered images
      
10. Special Effects
    • Scope and nature of special effects that can be created with digital photographs
       
11. Outputs & Applications
    • Printers
    • The Internet
    • How and where digital photography can effectively be used.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Aims:

• Describe the scope and nature of digital photography
• Select appropriate equipment for use in digital photography
• Explain how technology enables digital images to be captured.
• Compare different digital cameras and select an appropriate camera for a particular application.
• Control the effects created in a digital photograph which you take.
• Describe techniques which can be used for digitally capturing images from film photographs, or graphics.
• Explain how digital images can be transferred effectively from a camera (or scanner) onto another device (eg. a computer, video monitor, television set, etc).
• Describe techniques that can be used to process digital photographs within a computer to achieve improved or changed images.
• Explain how digital photos can be manipulated and changed to produce altered images.
• Discuss the scope and nature of special effects that can be created with digital photographs.
• Identify how and where digital photography can effectively be used.

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