Pond Time Lapse and Links

The wife likes taking photos, so we got a Canon T3 to move up from the point and shoot cameras we have used in the past. I took a swing at making one (see above), throwing rocks into a little pond near my house. I used the Canon EOS Utility via a USB cable (although I did rig up my old TI-85 and a 2.5mm stereo cable to act as an intervalometer via these instructions). I took pictures every 5 seconds, and put it together at 10fps with "Time Lapse Assembler for Mac" freeware. It was a pretty neat project, and I plan on doing many many more moving forward. My inspiration for this was RD Willis. I always love the Sunday Night Football cityscape time lapses done by RD Willis (see videos below) in addition to some of the other awesome ones I have seen . Check out the 2012 SNF collection.

 

NBC Sunday Night Football 2012 from RD Willis on Vimeo.

Photoshop Tutorial Links

Most of the time I screw with photoshop, I just fix photos I screwed up, cropping and contrast and such.  But after looking around at some of these sites, I now have ideas for photo manipulation that I didn't even think existed.

http://photoshoptutorials.ws/ - this site has tons and tons of various tutorials, ranging from beginner to hard.  This tutorial shows a cool long exposure imitation.
The Photoshop Lady-  pages of random tutorials that you didn't even think of to do
psd tuts- again, pages of random tutorials that you didn't even think of to do
PSLover- I like this one cause it has category lists-
The Andy Warhol PS rip off technique- I really like this one cause Andy Warhol had Ali, we have Tyson.
This Post I did has mad links to HDR photography and how a simpleton like me can get started in it.
and per "Who is Dis, Dis is Alex's" recommendation, a lens flair tutorial and one with a video.