Fleming
Astrophotography
Astrophotography
Tutoring Service
Feel stuck with your
astro-imaging? Not getting the results that you feel you should be
getting? Neil Fleming of www.flemingastrophotography.com
has announced a new astrophotography tutoring service. This service
offering is oriented towards any astrophotographer who wants to “get
over the hump” that many experience while progressing in this hobby.
We've all seen DVD's,
read books, and gone to conferences in-person, but if you're anything
like me, you prefer to be shown how to do things in person. This
tutoring service that is dedicated to any level of astro-imager who
wants to accelerate their learning curve, through hardware and camera
setup, image acquisition, initial processing, and final image
processing in Photoshop and its various plug-ins.
The format is a
dedicated evening or weekend slot, usually 2-3 hours in duration. By
using remote access facilities, we would collaborate on one system,
either yours or mine. Topics covered include:
- Initial image
processing with CCDStack or MaxIM
- Advanced data
rejection techniques
- Deconvolution
and DDP
- Tools like Quarktet's
Tria, Gradient XTerminator, NeatImage, Registar, and FocusMagic
- The myriad possible
techniques in Photoshop; Data optimization, advanced selections and
layers, sharpening (Smart Sharpen, Unsharp Masking, "True" Unsharp
Masking, Multi-layer High Pass Sharpening), Color balancing and
adjustments, gradient control, and mosaics
- Image
acquisition and guiding techniques with MaxIM or CCDSoft
- Automation approaches
with CCDCommander or CCDAP
- Mount alignment with
T-Point or PoleAlignMax
- Use of FocusMax.
I have been
privileged to be invited to speak at AIC, NEAIC, MWAIC, and have had
images published in both Sky & Telescope as well as Astronomy
Magazine.
Hourly costs for one-on-one tutoring range between $20 and $25/hour,
depending on the duration that we work together.
Contact Neil at ‘neilfleming at
hotmail dot com’ for further information.
