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After weeks of secret discussions and work I proudly announce now that Fenyertek.hu, our Hungarian photography tutorial portal has just started to operate.
We are aiming to fill in the itching lack of freely available photography related information in Hungarian. We are going to share videos, podcasts and written material about lighting in studio and on location, portrait, landscape and macro photography, retouching and whatever else comes up as a matter of interest from our readers.

If you speak Hungarian come and visit us. But even if you don’t, you might enjoy some of our videos.

Have you ever seen this online tool? It was new to me when I read about it in David Hobby’s tweets. It is what it looks like: an online Lighting Diagram Creator and it is free to use.

Just a quick note that Snow Leopard is available for pre-order now.

This is about something Chase Jarvis mentioned some time ago: the convergence of still photography and video.
Alexx Henry was lucky – or hard working – enough to get an assignment where he could use and leverage the features of an amazing Red One cinema camera for a project that combines still images and video. You’ll see some movie posters coming alive.

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Have you seen this?

Local adjustment brush is a great tool in Lightroom 2 that makes photographers use Photoshop less frequently. Earlier you could make only global changes on your photos that impacted the whole area of the picture. Now it got local.
The very same – any more – effects can be achieved with layer masks in Photoshop. However, this tool is so easy and intuitive to use in Lightroom that sometimes I have to resist using it.
I show below how it works.

Look at the pic on the right. The photo is dominated by the model’s eyes and smile and the eye really attracts the attention. However, we could be kind to our model just making her wrinkles just a bit less visible.

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