Tag Archives: Brian Lawler

Why shoot one photo when nine will be better?

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Brian Lawler

I started shooting panoramic photos way back in the 1970s. I used a rented film camera called a Hulcherama. That was quite an impressive camera. It shot on 220 film, which rolled through the camera as the camera turned. It had … Continue reading →

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Photographing the elusive cellist…
and being quiet about it!

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Brian Lawler

I’m the staff photographer for the Festival Mozaic, San Luis Obispo’s wonderful summer music festival. I’ve been doing this for a number of years, and I have learned a lot about photographing musicians who often play notes much softer than … Continue reading →

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Portable printing on a picnic table

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Brian Lawler

School is out, and I am on summer vacation! My bride and I are on a three-week journey through northern California and southern Oregon. We have stayed in two California State Parks, two National Forest camps, and two commercial RV … Continue reading →

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My timely obsession with real-time clocks

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Brian Lawler

As a part of my Bishop Peak Portrait Project, I have built a couple of “printed” circuit boards. I made these on my CNC router, which I used to cut away the copper on a blank circuit board, leaving behind … Continue reading →

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This is turning out better than I had imagined!

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Brian Lawler

If you have been reading this blog for the last month you know that I am currently obsessed with a mountain in San Luis Obispo named Bishop Peak. I am so obsessed that I am taking 71,808 photos of it … Continue reading →

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An Exposure Expedition at Cal Poly

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Brian Lawler

Each quarter when I teach Digital Photography at Cal Poly, I take the students out for what I call an Exposure Expedition. These expeditions are in the interest of teaching basic camera techniques, and teaching the students how to “see” … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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