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T-Shirts From The Reel World: Watch A Supercut Of Cinema’s Sweetest Cotton Candy [VIDEO]

A visual history of the t-shirt (and the occasional tank, polo, and sweatshirt), as told with clips from 78 total movies. Included in the mix are some obvious selections - like Napoleon Dynamite's "Vote For Pedro" or Bluto's iconic "College" sweatshirt from Animal House - but the edit is leavened with a number of lesser-known wildcards and design gems, mostly of an '80s pedigree (the good, the bad, the dubious). Not to be missed: a pair of montages, one grouped around Chris Knight's (Val Kilmer) amazing wardrobe from 1985 s cult classic, Real Genius, the second, the irrepressible Stiles from Teen Wolf, (the 1985 original, mind you, not the silly MTV remake), who sports a gaggle of curious slogans on his torso.

See a complete list of every film in sequence at It Goes To 11.

Edited by Brett Roberts and Travis Greenwood for Found Item Clothing.

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4 Ways to Add a Sense of Motion to Your Urban Photography

It is great to walk around a new city, or a new part of a familiar city, and just explore. You never know what will be on the next block or around the next corner. When you bring your camera along with you, you can often capture a few nice skyline photos, some interesting pictures of buildings, and perhaps some street photos of people going about their daily life.

But you know what is often missing from these photos? A sense of movement, and that's what cities are all about. Cities are not just collections of buildings. They are dynamic environments full of hustle and bustle. The trouble, of course, is that it is hard to capture this movement in a still image.

So I want to show you a few techniques for adding that sense of motion to your urban pictures - how to capture the city in motion

#1 - Add streaking headlights and taillights

A common way you can add movement to your urban photos is by including streaking headlights and taillights. But don't stop with capturing only the streaking lights, without regard to capturing the city. Streaking lights can work really well as an accent to a photo of your city. In other words, the streetlights don't necessarily need to dominate the image, but rather just add a sense of movement to the overall image.

The key to capturing this effect is to set up your shot on a tripod with a long exposure and take shots as traffic moves past you.

There are no set exposure settings because the ambient light is always different. Start with something like a 20 second exposure at f/8 and adjust from there. Try triggering the shutter just before traffic enters your frame. You will probably need to take several of these pictures to make sure you've got it right.

#2 - Panning

Another great but often overlooked technique for capturing motion in the city is panning. Panning is where you follow a subject with your camera so that the subject is in focus and reasonably sharp, while the background is blurry and shows a sense of motion.

Panning is great because it doesn't require a tripod and can't be done at any time of day. What you do is follow a moving subject with your camera at a moderately slow shutter speed. The best shutter speed for this technique tends to be between a 1/30th and an 1/8 of a second. Since the camera is moving at the same rate as the subject, the subject should be reasonably sharp, while the background will be blurred.

You can use this technique on anything that is moving, whether it be a train, a car, or even a bicyclist or skateboarder. My favorites tend to be the iconic vehicles of the city.

When you get back to the computer, you can accentuate the effect a bit in Photoshop by sharpening your subject a little bit, while at the same time adding a slight blur to the background.

#3 - Capture movement of vehicles

When it comes to vehicles, don't limit yourself to streaking taillights and headlights. It often works really well just to add a slight blur to vehicles in your frame to add a sense of movement. In fact, a lot of times this adds more of a sense of movement than just having lines streaking across the image.

You will want to use a tripod for these types of shots. It is important that everything be sharp except the blurred vehicle. To capture the movement, a shutter speed of just a few seconds works really well. You will probably have to take several shots to get a good one.

#4 - Capture the movement of people

The final way to capture movement in an urban setting is by capturing people in motion. This is used much less than the other techniques, largely because it is harder. People don't have lights that streak across the screen. In addition, you have to get closer and it is more personal. But when done well, the results can be dramatic.

The best way to go about it is to set up shop where you know people will be walking past you. Train stations, subway stations, and other places where people rush in and out, work really well for this. If you can use a tripod to keep the background sharp, do so.
The shutter speed will need to be a bit slower than what you use to capture moving vehicles because people move so much slower. Typically a shutter speed of about 1/2 to 1/10th of a second works pretty well.

This is another one you can do any time of day, any day of the year. It is a good thing to work on when conditions are not right for other photography you want to do.

Conclusion

Including movement can add a missing element to your urban and street photography. It is also something that you can get out and do on any particular day or night. Plus it requires no special gear. If you have a camera and a tripod, you are good to go.

So head out and try some of these techniques, and if you have any questions about it just leave it in the comments below.

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How to Use the Filter in Lightroom’s Library Module

Once you enable the filter in Lightroom's library module, you are able to search your images in three ways - text, attributes and metadata. To activate the filter bar, the keyboard shortcut is backslash (\). The filter bar will be activated and displayed on top of the workspace (see the screenshot below), only if you press the backslash key in the Library module. If you press the same backslash key in Develop, you will be see the before version of the selected image, provided you have made some corrections to your image.

Filter by text

The first option, Text mode allows you to search your images by the images' text fields, from title, caption, keywords, searchable metadata, searchable IPTC, searchable EXIF, to any searchable plugin field. The field box comes as a drop down menu, where you can pick the text your search should be based upon.

In the next box you can pick either one of the following parameters - contains all, contains, contains words, or doesn't contain. You can select starts with or ends with as well. In the last box you can enter your text, the text which you want your search should be based upon.

Filter by image attributes

The next option to filter is based upon the Image attributes. This section is further divided into flag status, ratings, color ratings and kind of file. In flag status, you can either pick flagged, unflagged, or rejected ones as well as a combination of two of those choices by clicking the flag symbols. Once you filter your images, the selected ones will be highlighted in white (use Ctrl/Cmd+A to select all).

Filter by rating

The next option in this section is star rating; you can filter photographs based on the number ratings you have applied to them. You can click the third star if you want to filter the photographs which have three stars exactly. You can also select less than or greater than by clicking the greater than symbol (>), where you will be prompted to select one of the following:

Filter by color label

The next option in this section is filter by color label; you might have applied color labels based on your own methods of flagging images. For example green for web upload, red for yet to process, or something like that. Imagine you want to view only the red ones which you wish to process now. You can do that by clicking the red color box alone or you can add yellow along with it by clicking that box as well. In this way you can combine all the color labels, or only the ones you want. If one color label is selected, that particular box will be brighter than the other, which means it is active.

Filter by kind of file

The last option in this sub-section is to filter by kind; which in this instance means the kind of file. In Lightroom you can have three kinds of files; master image files, virtual copies, and video files. If you want only the virtual copies you can select that particular icon alone. Like the other filters here, you can also combine more than one choice.

Filter by metadata

The most powerful option to filter your photographs is by metadata - the options are endless.

You have the option to filter your photographs by all of the metadata in your files, you can get an idea by looking at the screenshot above. You can combine multiple metadata together to work for you by adding more filter columns. Click the right side of the title for an option to add more columns with other criteria. Click the filter title itself to change it to something else. In the screenshot, I have clicked the title Label; and you can see the pull-down menu of options that appeared.

Miscellaneous other filtering tips

The filtered photographs based on your criteria will be instantly displayed on the below workspace. You can also combine multiple filter sections from Text to Attributes to Metadata or all together, the options are almost endless.

You can create presets if you have a particular way of filtering your photographs, provided you have managed your library in that way. Have you noticed the lock symbol on the right end of the filter bar? The drop down menu next to the lock symbol has an option to save your search as a preset, so next time you just have to select that preset. Easy right?

The lock symbol at the right end of the filter bar will lock the filter criteria (if you click it) and the same filter can be applied to all your collections or folders one by one as you select the folders and collections.

I hope this article helps you work smarter with Lightroom and saves you lots of time and resources.

Cheers and happy photographing.

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