Category Archives: Technology

Time-lapse project, part III: a new circuit board

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Brian Lawler

My time-lapse camera has been running now for 25 days. It snaps a photo of Bishop Peak (elev. 1559 ft.) every five minutes. I have over 2,300 photos so far. This is a sample of the photos being taken by … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Gadgets, New technology, Photography, Technology | Tagged Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, CNC routing, Raspberry Pi, time-lapse controller | 2 Comments

An adventure in the Distiller Time Machine

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Brian Lawler

Way back in 2003 I wrote an essay for inclusion in an article in Pre magazine about using Adobe Acrobat Distiller with hot folders to get PDFs with specific settings just by dropping a source file into a watched folder … Continue reading →

Posted in Imposition and Pagination, Printing and Printing Processes, Software, Technology | Tagged Acrobat, Acrobat Distiller, Adobe Acrobat, Brian Lawler, Distiller, Hot Folder trick using Distiller, Hot Folders, PDF-X/4 | Leave a comment

365 days taking photos of a mountain

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Brian Lawler

On Thursday morning this week I set up my time-lapse camera on the roof of the Kennedy Library at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. It’s facing almost due-west toward a mountain named Bishop Peak, which stands over the city of … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Gadgets, New technology, Photography, Technology | Tagged Brian Lawler, Cal Poly time-lapse, Kennedy Library time-lapse, long-term time-lapse, photography, Raspberry Pi, solar panel powering camera, time-lapse | Leave a comment

Time-lapse weather-proof box construction

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Brian Lawler

This is part two of a blog about making a weather-proof time-lapse camera box, and the camera equipment to go inside it. You can read part one here. With may plan to do a year-long time-lapse project, I began in … Continue reading →

Posted in Gadgets, Photography, Technology | Tagged Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, CNC router, G-code, Mach3, time-lapse camera, V-Carve, weather-proof box | Leave a comment

Time-lapse with a Raspberry twist

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Brian Lawler

What’s been going on since December? I’ve been spending a lot of time making a cabinet for my camper (another thing I designed in Illustrator and built on my CNC Router). That has taken a tremendous amount of time, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Gadgets, Photography, Technology | Tagged Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, controlling a relay with Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi, solar powered time-lapse, time-lapse | 2 Comments

Calibrating the iPhone with i1 Display Pro

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Brian Lawler

I see iPhones being used for all sorts of “professional” applications including video capture, and now that the phone sports a 12Mp camera, graphic arts quality photography. No excuses professional photography. Several years ago I was made aware of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Digital video, Gadgets, Photography, Printing and Printing Processes, Software, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, calibrating the iPhone, ColorTRUE, i1 Display, iPhone calibration, MyPantone, Pantone, X-Rite | Leave a comment

ePubs – under the hood

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Brian Lawler

I’ve been making ePubs for several years, and I have taught courses on ePubs at GraphExpo and at Cal Poly, where I am employed as a professor. For the first few years I was very grumpy about ePubs, as they … Continue reading →

Posted in Software, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, e-book, electronic publishing, ePub, InDesign ePub, META-INF, OEBPS, Sigil, structure of ePub, TOC-ncx | 2 Comments

Shooting 100 60MB photos every second
with the Red Dragon

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Brian Lawler

For years I have been following the development of the digital video company called Red. They made news first at the National Association of Broadcasters event in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2006. At that show they introduced the world to … Continue reading →

Posted in Digital video, New technology, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Technology | Tagged Brian Lawler, Canon 5d Mark III, digital cinema, digital video, Red Cinema, Red Dragon, REDCODE | 1 Comment

Our night on Mount Wilson
with a really big telephoto lens

Posted on October 21, 2014 by Brian Lawler

On September 26, my wife and I joined a group from the local astronomical society on a field trip to Mount Wilson, just east of Pasadena, California, where we spent the entire night observing objects in the sky. My wife … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Education, People, Photography, Technology | Tagged 100-inch telescope, 60-inch telescope, Brian Lawler, CHARA telescope, Hooker telescope, Mount Wilson, Observatory | 1 Comment

The most exciting thing I saw at GraphExpo 2014

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Brian Lawler

I troll the hallways at GraphExpo, looking at the many booths showing exciting technologies to potential customers. There are people selling software, hardware, firmware, middleware, and usually – pretzels. This year there was no pretzel vendor, nor an ice cream … Continue reading →

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