Photography is an essential part of Geology. In this digital photography course students will learn to understand what different types of cameras and lenses exist, how to work properly with the camera, including smart phone, understanding and making full use of the various camera settings (iso, shutter speed, aperture etc.). They will learn how to work with natural and with artificial light, learn about colors, composition, making high quality pictures. Notably: images of minerals, fossils, rocks with the macrolense, and under the microscope, and outside in quaries or mountains. Students will learn image processing with Adobe Lightroom (Adobe Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) correcting image quality, and learn e.g. how to stitch images making panoramas, get familiar with different color codes (RGB, CMYK etc.), file formats (GIF, JPEG, TIFF, RAW etc.), loss in quality (e.g. resolution or change in color) when copying images and pasting in word processors, saving them as a PDF, printing on a color printer, or presenting with a beamer. Students will also learn about issues like plagiarism and copyright in photography, tagging, and organising pictures in personal or public database, and preparing pictures for presentation and publication.
Course learning outcomes
1. Propose a conceptual set-up for digital adaptation in accordance to the field of geosciences (C5).
2. Produce digital image processing in accordance with the latest technology in geosciences (P4).
3. Adapt digital photography and image analysis in geosciences (P6).
4. Present their own, new high quality geoscientific photos with explanation to an audience (C6).