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So, amidst my horrible intense studying sessions for the upcoming finals, I needed a break and felt like watching a movie... but which one? The answer was delivered to my inbox - a photojojo newsletter listing the "Top 50 Photography Movies Photo Fans Must See": 1. Rear Window [] 2. Amelie [X] 3. One Hour Photo [X] 4. Memento [X] 5. Pecker [] 6. Blow up [] Movies with characters as photographers 7. City of God [X] 8. Apocalypse Now [] 9. The Eyes of Laura Mars [] 10. Peeping Tom [] 11. Salvador [] 12. The Year Of Living Dangerously [] 13. Midnight Meat Train [] 14. Funny Face [] 15. Proof [] 16. Delirious [] 17. Road to perd

Ever wondered how some get that "painted" look in their photos? After seeing ~Grooveinjector (https://www.deviantart.com/grooveinjector)`s "In un giorno di pioggia" http://fav.me/d2puq1r I just decided to ask and apparently the key word here is "HDR imaging". Here´s a short tutorial I found on how to do this: http://backingwinds.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-create-professional-hdr-images.html It says in the tutorial you should do this with RAW images, but somehow my photoshop isn´t opening RAW images anymore (WHY!??! WHYYYYYYY?!?!?!) - so I´ll try this with JPG...  But then again, I have so many ideas and stuff I want to try out on the line it might take a while unt

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This statement means that beauty is a very subjective thing. When we see something and it makes us feel good - we think it is beautiful and by telling someone about it, we expect this other person to agree on this. When you ask people on the streets about what they think is beautiful, you get all kind of answers: It´s a sunny day, flowers and colors. Or it`s the smile of your child on saturday mornings. It`s a rainy day spent lying in a hammock on the porch. It´s a beautiful woman in a red dress. Etc. Beauty is also a cultural thing. What is beautiful to someone in the US, might not be beauti