81 Links for photographers

82 if you count this one.

Chittenango Falls HDR

Six bracketed exposures shot through a neutral density filter to extend exposure time and create soft flow effect with water. Merged to HDR in PS and tone mapped with HDR Efex Pro. Much masking & blending,tweaking and other obsessive behavior in PS.

Light Stalking has some inspirational photos of waterfalls and some how-tos.

Provocative prom photos

 by Mary Ellen Mark  (slideshow follows ad).

Whatsis "Blend If"?

Excellent tutorial on Photoshop’s mysterious “Blend If” sliders for constraining the tonal ranges from particular layers that are blended into, and hence able to affect, the image as a whole.

Huh?


Blend If Settings | The Light's Right

New Yawk

Iconic images of NYC from the Municipal Archives.

Asylum

Beautiful and spooky HDR Time lapse assembled from individual still images over a period of seven months.

More here.

images from the morgue

of the New York Times.