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Our semester is organized around four main projects:
- An Object ("Still Life") - Due Wed., September 23
- A Person in Time ("Portrait") - Due Mon., October 19
- A Place ("Landscape") - Due Wed., November 18
- Final Project: Due and Exhibited Wed., December 9.
It is expected (but not required) that the Final Project will be a revised version of one of the first three projects.
All assignment submissions will take the form of pull requests on Github. For more information, please see Submitting Work. In addition to the above, students are also expected to complete:
- One "Technical Assistance Tutorial".
- Ten brief "Looking Outwards" reports, on an approximately weekly schedule.
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- Review all of the course documents: Deliverables, Course Policies, Course Calendar, Course Lab Fee, Submitting Work.
- Complete the Enrollment Questionnaire & FERPA Waiver.
- Create a Github account (if you do not already have one), and start learning how to use git.
- Fork this repo, and issue a pull request to update your student page;
- Write your first Looking Outwards report, on some art or other research project from the realms of computational photography, expanded cinema, experimental capture etc. Issue a pull request to have this included.
- Read Chapter 2 (The Technical Image) in Vilem Flusser's Towards a Philosophy of Photography.
- Read Chapter 1 (Introduction) in Richard Szeliski's Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications. Browse the book and find something that interests you.
- Give some thought to your first assignment, due 9/23, the documentation of an object.
- Give some thought to the piece of equipment for which you'd like to write your Tutorial.