Easy Photoshop Black/White Points

Alex Wise brings us this great Photoshop tutorial on easily finding your black and white points in an image... This is useful for a number of reasons, but namely removing color casts and adjusting contrast:

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Adobe LR4 and ACR6.7 Include M Lens Corrections

Both the newly released Adobe Lightroom 4 and Camera Raw 6.7 release candidate include lens corrections for 21 Leica M lenses. You can view the Adobe product page for Lightroom 4 (which can be purchased for $149 or upgraded from LR3 for $79) - as well as download the Camera Raw 6.7 release candidate (which is a free update) to get started today with your existing Adobe applications. Read more below for the full list of lenses covered.

Put Away Those Fast Lenses...

It looks like Photoshop CS6 will have a new feature called "Iris Blur" that will allow you to quickly and easily add fake depth of field effects. Ironically, a fast lens can cost less than Photoshop:

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HCB Exhibition in Rome

An Italian TV piece on a Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit at a museum in Rome.

"Look there, where others only know how to see." This phrase captures the essence of the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, his unmistakable stylistic diversity of his approach to photography, his relationship with the camera, I quote the words of Bresson: "My Leica is literally an extension of my eye "says Cartier-Bresson," the way in which I hold in my hand, narrow forehead, his mark when the eyes move from side to side, it gives me the impression of being a referee in a match I held before my eyes, which I'll take the atmosphere to the hundredth of a second."

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