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Photoshop – Using The Lens Blur Filter On An Image Sequence – Julianne Kost

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“Even with the fantastic new Blur Gallery in Photoshop CS6, the Lens Blur filter is an essential tool when a high degree of control is needed to selectively (and realistically) blur an image. In this video tutorial, Julieanne Kost uses the Lens Blur filter with a depth map to to create a series of images that appear as if they were captured with a tilt-shift lens. Julieanne also demonstrates how to quickly apply this filter to multiple images using actions and batch processing.”
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Paul Strand – Under The Darkcloth – Video

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Paul Strand – Under The Darkcloth Part 1

Paul Strand – Under The Darkcloth Part 2

Paul Strand – Under The Darkcloth Part 3

Paul Strand – Under The Darkcloth Part 4

Paul Strand – Under The Darkcloth Part 5

Paul Strand – Under The Darkcloth Part 6

This video offers remarkable insights into a the life and work of a remarkable photographer.
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Laura Gilpin – The Enduring Photographer

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“This film celebrates the life and work of Laura Gilpin, an artist whose career spanned 76 years yet who worked most of that time in obscurity. With a pragmatic mind, an insightful eye and a compassionate heart, Laura Gilpin was a distinct voice in the great photographic endeavor of the 20th century to define and understand the American west. Through a detailed retrospective of her unique photographs, from her rare autochromes and exquisite platinum landscapes to her gentle portraits of Navajo life, learn how unlike her contemporaries, Laura Gilpin interpreted her surroundings as relationships between land and people rather than landscapes devoid of human existence. Experience Laura Gilpin’s remarkable ability to connect these dynamic and sometimes fragile relationships of life in the west to the inner and universal landscape of humanity.”
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Sally Mann – What Remains

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“Sally Mann is acknowledged as one of America’s finest and most controversial photographers. In this video, from the documentary film, What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann, she discusses her work and her project examining death and decay. Sensitive or squeamish viewers should be aware that there are very graphic scenes in this video clip.”
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American Photography – Exposures Video Series

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Exposures – American Photography – Part 1

Exposures – American Photography – Part 2

Exposures – American Photography – Part 3

Exposures – American Photography – Part 4

Exposures – American Photography – Part 5

Exposures – American Photography – Part 6

Exposures – American Photography – Part 7

Exposures – American Photography – Part 8

Exposures – American Photography – Part 9

Exposures surveys American photography.
It’s a history lesson. It’s food for thought. It’s inspiring.
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The Physical Benefits Of Meditating

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There are many clinically proven physical benefits of practicing meditation.

Meditation …

1            Decreases respiratory rates.
2            Slows heart rates while increasing blood flow.
3            Decreases blood pressure.
4            Decreases muscle tension and headaches.
5            Decreases lactate concentrations, which are linked to anxiety.
6            Increases serotonin a counteragent to obesity, insomnia, and depression.
7            Boosts the immune system.
8            Reduces the effects of chronic diseases, allergies, arthritis, asthma etc.
9            Speeds the healing of wounds.
10          Increases the activity of cancer-killing cells.

It’s mind over matter. What’s on your mind matters.

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The Benefits Of Mindfulness

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You can create many benefits for yourself through a mindfulness practice.

Mindfulness creates physical benefits. Medical patients meditate to reduce stress, boost immune systems, and speed and improve healing. Athletes meditate to increase benefits from practice and performance during competition.

Mindfulness creates mental benefits. Artists meditate to explore new qualities of thought and forms of expression. Inventors meditate to develop new products, stimulating mental versatility and clarity.

Mindfulness creates emotional benefits. Psychologists meditate and teach mindfulness to their patients to reduce negative emotional responses, including stress, anxiety, and depression. Self-help gurus meditate and teach mindfulness to their clients to increase positive emotional responses, promoting feelings of greater energy, motivation, and fulfillment.

Mindfulness creates spiritual benefits. Spiritual practitioners meditate to fulfill the goals of increasing self-awareness, self-discovery, self-realization, and self-fulfillment. Religious practitioners meditate to deepen and intensify the experiences provided by religious practices.

Mindfulness helps everyone ­– and everything.

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