WORKSHOP: IMAGING FOR HUMANITIES
LABORATORIO DI IMAGING FOR HUMANITIES
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| 2025/2026 | 1 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Simone Garagnani | At the end of the lectures or by appointment to be arranged via email. |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The activities of this workshop aims to present the operational foundations of modern digital representation and smartphone photography in archaeology, with a particular focus on pictures for artistic artifacts, architectural spaces, and urban contexts, using commonly available tools such as smartphones. The activities carried out during the laboratory will be organized according to a learning-by-doing approach, in which students will immediately engage in the practical application of principles and techniques. These principles and techniques will be detailed and addressed from a theoretical perspective concurrently with direct experimentation.
At the end of the workshop, students will have developed the skills and critical sense for a conscious use of photographic techniques through smartphones. An individual exercise will be proposed to each participant to apply what they learned to their personal experience.
Program
The syllabus of the Workshop is divided into three modules, each lasting 4 hours. The content for each module will be organized according to the following outline:
Module 1
- Brief introduction to the Drawing Workshop: objectives and goals
- Drawing and its graphic evolution in the era of ubiquitous computing
- Introduction to basic photographic techniques: from the camera to the smartphone
- The concept of the time/aperture pair for proper exposure
- Types of sensors, format, resolution
- Sensitivity: ISO and digital noise
- Shooting modes and automations related to various types of light
- Brief overview of issues related to color documentation
Module 2
- Introduction to Adobe Lightroom Mobile: turning the smartphone into a reflex camera
- RAW photographic formats and the importance of DNG files
- Practical exercise in the laboratory: photography of interiors and artistic objects
- Management of taken photographs: organization and data transfer
- Introduction to the individual exercise
Module 3
- Summary of activities carried out during the laboratory
- Discussion of the initial results of the individual exercise: virtual pin-up session
- Conclusions and future scenarios
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
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