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The CWAS Astrophotography Workshop
2-3 February 2008 from 11:00AM both days |
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Conducted by Steve Quirk
at the Parkes East Public School |
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Cost: $10 per person to be payed on the day
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| The workshop will be conducted by noted astrophotographer and author, Steve Quirk. It will be held in the computer room of the Parkes East Public School. Steve will show how to process digital astrophotographs using the powerful utilities of Photoshop CS2. The school's computers will be available for our use but you can bring your own laptop if you want to. The workshop will coincide with our first dark sky observing night for the year, so any photos you take that Saturday night, can be processed and improved on the final day of the workshop under Steve's expert guidance. No prior, detailed knowledge of photography is required - just a desire to learn and improve on your astrophotography skills. Even if you only take tripod mounted camera shots with simple equipment, there will be lots to learn. The programme of the workshop will include: 1. Levels 2. Vignette/gradient removal 3. Unsharp masking. (a) from same image using levels and (b) separate exposure images 4. How to make RGB colour images and adding a luminance channel to RGB 5. Making a simulated green channel 6. Colour balance 7. Removing artefacts 8. Multi-field merging 9. Publishing images to a website - sizing and compression 10. Making dark frames. The workshop will be kept flexible. If anyone wants to do anything else that's no problem. |
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How to get to Parkes East Public School
1-3 Thornbury Street, Parkes |
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