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I recently started looking into computational photography. I didn't realize how much of the imaging acquisition process I was ignorant of: color theory, exposure, shutter speeds ... It's all pretty intuitive, but I feel like need to learn optics to really get it all!

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There's this Stanford projects called Frankencamera [1] which is pretty jaw-dropping. They do a bunch of cool stuff but the one feature that really stood out was that you can take a photo and then focus it in post-production.

[1] https://frankencamera.wordpress.com

Post-production focus? That sounds like Lytro, another Stanford spin-off (but based on a grid of lens): https://www.lytro.com/

interesting, thanks for the link

Correct link: http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/camera-2.0/

A few friends have done (taught) Masters degrees in photography (at a medical university, no less). A lot of time is spent painting, drawing, framing; exactly as you say, photography involves much than just pointing a camera.

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