UK Digital Photography Club
Next Meeting: TBA

This WWW site has been created by Professor Hank Dietz to help organize a club for UK students, faculty, and staff who are interested in digital photography.

Call for Participation & Electronic Sign-Up Sheet

A PDF Call for Participation has been posted various places around campus.

This registration form will be used solely to collect information that can be used to help guide the structure of the club. We cannot build the club to suit your interests and comments unless we have heard about them... so register soon!

Some References...

Here are pointers to a few useful resources relevant to digital photography in general. Later, we hope to have a much more complete set of reference materials on this site.

Tutorials

• http://aggregate.org/EDay2003/photo.pdf
  A relatively simple overview of technical aspects of digital photography
• http://www.www.webphotoschool.com/
  Lots of tutorials, some free others not
• http://www.shortcourses.com/
  Lots of not-free stuff
• http://www.vincentbockaert.com/Tutorials/ImagesFramePST_08_PS.htm
  Another non-free thing

Equipment Reviews, etc.

• http://www.dpreview.com/
• http://www.imaging-resource.com/
• http://www.dcresource.com/
• http://www.steves-digicams.com/

Photo Contests

• Imaging Resource's Daily Photo Contest, which also has links to a lot of other photo contests

Club Stuff

• Loanable Equipment that may be available to club members

Highly Technical References

• http://www.normankoren.com/
  A very technical tutorial on image quality issues, etc.
• http://www.i3a.org/
  International Industry Imaging Association standards, etc.

A Little History...

This club is the direct response to the interest generated by the short course Introduction To Digital Photography (PDF slides) which Professor Hank Dietz gave as part of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department's EDay2003 activities. Dietz has a long history in photography. He was photo editor for his high school newspaper and yearbook, also for Columbia University's Broadway Magazine. Aside from school-related publications, his work has appeared in places ranging from news photos in the New York Times to a full-page color ad for Hammacher-Schlemmer in the Saturday Evening Post. Since becoming a computer engineer, he has continued his interest in photography as both a hobby and a source of new directions for his research. As early as the mid 1980s, Dietz researched and published on digital halftoning techniques; his more recent work includes computational video walls, 360-dgree high-resolution digital imaging, and various methods to improve image quality for consumer digital cameras.

As a once professional photographer who prided himself on his traditional photographic darkroom skills, it is Dietz's opinion that digital cameras and processing now yield competitive or superior results for most uses. As his collection of digital cameras has grown, so has the layer of dust on his 35mm and large-format cameras. ;-)

UK Digital Photography Club