Astronomical Photography 1

Digital Imaging Trends in Consumer Astronomical Photography

Since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope there has been widespread popular interest in astronomical imaging. A further series of events, most notably the recent Deep Impact mission have served to fuel further interest in this. In parallel with this there have been a number of events and trends that have increased interest in astronomical photography outside of professional astronomy. Adva...

Digital photography versus analogue photography 1 Running heading: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY VERSUS ANALOGUE PHOTOGRAPHY. Digital versus Analogue Photography: a comparative analysis

Post-photography and beyond (1)

For a long time now, photography has been the modern way to make an image; is has been the rapid way, because it is the mechanical way; and also the easily repeatable way; and finally, it has been the truthful way, the only way for the picture to be true, both to its object and to its cause. In return, photography has acquired the reputation of being somewhat soul-less, unable to convey the per...

ENGN2911I: 3D Photography and Geometry Processing Assignment 1: 3D Photography using Planar Shadows

The goal of this assignment is to build an inexpensive, yet accurate, 3D scanner using household items and a camera. Specifically, we’ll implement the “desktop scanner” originally proposed by Jean-Yves Bouguet and Pietro Perona [3]. As shown in Figure 1, our instantiation of this system is composed of five primary items: a camera, a point-like light source, a stick, two planar surfaces, and a c...

Computational Photography: Epsilon to Coded Photography

Computational photography combines plentiful computing, digital sensors, modern optics, actuators, and smart lights to escape the limitations of traditional cameras, enables novel imaging applications and simplifies many computer vision tasks. However, a majority of current Computational photography methods involves taking multiple sequential photos by changing scene parameters and fusing the p...