Computer Science 39J
The Art and Science of Photography: Drawing with Light (2 units, P/NP)
Professor Brian Barsky
Friday 12:00-2:00, Foothill Classroom A, CCN: 26251

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This seminar explores the art and science of photography. Photographs are created by the control and manipulation of light. We will discuss quality of light for the rendering of tone, texture, shade, shadow, and reflection. The seminar examines the photographic process from light entering the lens through the creation and manipulation of the final image. Topics include composition and patterns, mathematics of perspective projection, refraction, blur, optics of lenses, exposure control, color science, film structure and response, resolution, digital image processing, human visual system, spatial and color perception, and chemical versus electronic processing. Students must have some experience using a camera that allows the user to manually control exposure, and must have access to such a camera that they can use to do the course assignments. For more information regarding this seminar, please visit the course website at http://inst.EECS.Berkeley.EDU/~cs39j/. This seminar is part of the new Freshman Seminar Program Dinner Series and Professor Barsky looks forward to having lunch with his students at 12:00 p.m. before class in the Foothill Dining Commons each week after the first week of the seminar. On the first day of the seminar, students will meet with Professor Barsky in Foothill Classroom A at 12:00 p.m. before going to lunch in the Dining Commons at 12:30 p.m.

Brian Barsky received his Ph.D. from the University of Utah in Computer Science and joined the UC Berkeley faculty in1981. His research interests are CAD/CAM, computer-aided geometric design and modeling, computer graphics, geometric modeling, visualization in scientific computing, and computer-aided cornea modeling and visualization.

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