Topaz Lens Effects is an Adobe Photoshop plug-in created to give you the power to direct and focus your viewer?COs eyes where you want them. With Lens Effects, you get advanced technology that realistically. simulates the most diverse range of lens and specialty camera effects. Topaz Lens Effects provides various simulated lens effects to your images to easily achieve the effects of specialty cameras, filters and lenses.

WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, WONDER WOMEN! looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society’s anxieties about women’s liberation.Go behind the scenes with Lynda Carter, Lindsay Wagner, comic writers and artists, and real-life superheroines such as Gloria Steinem, Kathleen Hanna and others, who offer an enlightening and entertaining counterpoint to the male-dominated superhero genre.

Why We Fight's director Eugene Jarecki shifts his focus from the military industrial complex to the War on Drugs, in this documentary exploring the risks that prohibition poses to freedom, and the tragedy of addicts being treated as criminals. From the dealer to the narcotics officer, the inmate to the federal judge, a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy.

You don't necessarily need a macro lens to do macro photography. By mounting a prime lens "backward"—with the front elements closest to the imaging sensor—you can turn it into a low-cost macro lens. All you need is an inexpensive adapter called a reversal ring. A sense of adventure helps, too, because your camera's normal metering and focusing features don't work when the lens is attached backward.

In this series of After Effects tutorials we will be learning the causes of photorealistic camera lens, aperture, and film or sensor effects as they happen in real life image capturing.
As we learn the mechanics behind each phenomenon, we will learn how to replicate this look inside of After Effects. We begin where light first enters the camera, through the lens, and follow it all the way to the heart of the camera, where the sensor or in some cases the film, lives. This training delves into the "why" behind complex light physics, and how it causes things like lens flares and bokeh effects.

There are two types of new photographers: those satisfied with their low-cost point-and-shoot cameras, and those more enthusiastic photographers who recognize the limitations of low-cost equipment and want to improve their pictures. No longer satisfied with simple snapshots, the enthusiast moves up to a more complex digital camera-one with interchangeable lenses and manual controls-to satisfy their artistic urge.

The Revisionaries showcases how public education has become the latest battleground in a new wave of cultural, religious and ideological clashes, with local Texas education board members advancing agendas of Creationism and other religious issues in public schools. This documentary highlights how their tactics have had the effect of rewriting key tenets of U.S. democracy and are affecting educational policies at the national level - for generations to come.

Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work design some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his word paintings featuring pithy and and often sarcastic text statements finely crafted onto vintage landscape paintings have made him a darling of the fine art world. The movie chronicles the vaulted highs and crushing lows of an artist struggling to find peace and balance between his professional work and his personal art. This is especially complicated for a man who struggles with the virtues he most often mocks in his art...Vanity, ego and fame.

Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spirit—arguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture—Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture, and cinema. Naked Lens features key Beat players and their collaborators, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, Ron Rice, John Cassavetes, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Klaus Maeck, and Gus van Sant.

Explaining how to use lens optimization programs to create a wide range of lens systems, this thoroughly updated Second Edition of an incomparable reference text describes current techniques for fashioning single-element lenses, two-element achromats, air-spaced triplets, and complex wide-angle and zoom lenses covering more than 30 types of lens design systems in all.

Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food -- from its roots in Western Africa, to its incarnation in the American South, to its contribution to modern health crises in communities of color. Soul Food Junkies also looks at the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from making calories cheap, but healthy options expensive and hard to find.

See the world in your language -- instantly translate printed words from one language to another with your built-in video camera, in real time!
NOTE: This paid version of Word Lens INCLUDES ONE LANGUAGE pack.

PTLens with latest database (18/10/12) is Windows software that corrects lens pincushion/barrel distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting. PTLens is available as a standalone application or Photoshop plug-in.Both the standalone application and plug-in versions of PTLens run under Windows 2000 or later with a monitor resolution of at least 1024x768 (DPI 96).

In this series of NUKE tutorials, we will learn about the physics of light travel inside a real camera lens and how to apply those effects to our own projects in NUKE. We will start by quickly learning about the various pieces and elements in a camera and then learn a little bit about how light physically interacts with various materials through reflection, refraction and diffraction.