This course will encourage and guide the teen photographer to find the scene, see the light, and record in the digital world. Below is a list of the topics we will be covering in each class. 1 “Light as (the) fundamental particle” (S. Weinberg, 1974). We trace through Art its representation till present day. 2 ‘Scenes we love to know’. from the sunrise, through mid-day and finally sunset; populated and un-populated. 3 ‘Camera’ and its deconstruction’. Class project to ‘atomize’ digital point and shoots. 4 ‘Take MY picture!’. Class project to construct a ‘Photo Booth’ and take your picture. 5 ‘Let us stop IT (Light)!. Class project to use microprocessors to control a camera shutter. 6 ‘Common Camera Photography’. Class project to use your digital camera. 7 ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall’. Class project to use un-conventional reflectors. And/or photo field trip to points on the MIT campus to improve students skills.

This is a class that is both serious and fun based upon the rich MIT experience in Vision, Signals and Systems, and Computational Photography. Light and Color: Mirror, mirror on the Wall; who is the fairest of us all? Lens and Cameras: The Human experience from the Cave to the iPad The Pixel and demosaicing the neighborhood: Never have so many given so little. A use for the Linears: A one hour Matlab for image processing Digital Camera Deconstruction (DCD): and that’s All there is! High Dynamic Range (HDR) methods according to St. Paul (Debevec) Compressive Sensing (CS) the Single Pixel Camera

The title is a first. The course combines these two great fields. Vision dates into pre-history and Computational Photography is some 30 years in the making. The student becomes becomes part of the scene. Keen students even in middle school could learn from the course. The students will take digital cameras apart. They will also learn how to See.

This is a class that is both serious and fun based upon the rich MIT experience in Vision, Signals and Systems, Computational Photography and its Pioneers (Prof. Edgerton and Prof. Schreiber). July 11 Light and Color: Mirror, mirror on the Wall; who is the fairest of us all? July 18 Lens and Cameras: The Human experience from the Cave to the iPad July 25 The Pixel and demosaicing the neighborhood: Never have so many given so little. August 01 A use for the Linears: A one hour Matlab for image processing August 08 Digital Camera Deconstruction (DCD): and that’s All there is! August 15 High Dynamic Range (HDR) methods according to St. Paul (Debevec) August 22 Compressive Sensing (CS) and the Single Pixel Camera