This is a quick time lapse of the 4.2M mirror getting prep’ed for coating. Footage was shot on a Canon 7D with a Tamron 18mm lens, 1 frame every 2.5 minutes. Thanks to all at Lowell and especially the people working at the DCT.
Daily Archive: August 3, 2011
Aug 03
Discovery Channel Telescope Construction Time Lapse
This is a time lapse of the construction of the Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT). This was taken over a period of 6 weeks with my Canon 7D mounted to a beam on the dome of the telescope. A total of 6372 of 2592×1728 raw images were taken. These were then processed using Lightroom 3 to …
Aug 03
Motion Tutorials
I use to have some tutorials on Apple’s Final Cut Pro Motion 4. With the advent of FCPX, I have since dropped using FCP. FCPX may be good for some pro-sumers out there but it does not work for me. If you are interested in my tutorials, they are still posted on my Vimeo account …
Aug 03
Photoshop CS4 User Interface
This is a brief overview of the Photoshop CS4 user interface. This is a tutorial for beginners, not advance users.
Aug 03
Vector vs bitmap
This is a quick tutorial that discuss the differences between vector and bitmap graphics. This is for an introductory class on graphic design
Aug 03
Photoshop CS4 – Color Zoom Resize
This is a brief tutorial covering setting of preferences, color, zoom and pan, resize image and canvas. This is a tutorial for beginners, not advance users.
Aug 03
Photoshop CS4 – Color, Kuler, Brush, History, Save & New
This tutorial covers a few beginner topics for working with Photoshop CS4. The specific topics in this video are Color, Kuler, Brush, History, Saving and creating New files. This is a tutorial for beginners, not advance users.
Aug 03
Photoshop CS4 – Selections
This is a brief overview of some basic selection techniques using Photoshop CS4. It covers geometric, polygonal and quick selection tools. Selection modification, refine selection, Quick Mask and color range selection techniques are also discussed. This is a tutorial for beginners, not advance users.
Aug 03
Photoshop CS4 – Understanding Layers
This is a brief tutorial covering working with layers in photoshop. It tells how to create, delete, lock and work with layers. Other topics include blending modes, opacity, merging and flattening. This is a tutorial for beginners, not advance users.
Aug 03
Photoshop CS4 – Working with Masks
This is a brief tutorial that covers working with masks in photoshop. It covers how to create, move, copy, edit and delete masks. It demonstrates how masks can be used to combine images across multiple layers and how they can be used for non destructive edits. This is a tutorial for beginners, not advance users.


