Welcome to Cool Stuff, a weekly feature where we post our favorite links from the past week, including our favorite articles and how-tos, videos, images and more.

• First, from our friends over at PetaPixel, this one gave most of us butterflies just thinking about it. Actually doing this? No thank you. But we’ll watch the video anyway.
• Our tablets (like the iPad) are getting increasingly powerful, and Adobe has a plan to put that power to good use. The fun stuff starts at 18:09 in the video below.
• Budding photojournalists, heads-up! The folks over at Fotopedia have launched an iPad app that lets you create and view stories on the go. If you haven’t checked out Fotopedia, you should – they have a pretty nice platform for telling photo stories.
• We love our timelapses, but this one takes the cake. Two months of an Antarctic ice breaker’s journey, compressed into 5 minutes.
  
• And finally, to those who have a hundred questions about photography, here are your answers. Zack Arias, photographer and educator extraordinaire, has taken the best of his Awesome “Photography Q&A” Tumblr and turned it into an awesome book.

 And now, for the BorrowLenses.com Roundup!

• To anyone who doesn’t live close to a pickup location, this one’s for you: We have new shipping rates that make it even more affordable for you to rent gear.
• The Canon 800mm f/5.6 isn’t the only game in town anymore! Nikon’s 800mm is finally here…
• A big thanks to everyone who came by and said hello to us at Photo Video West last week!

That’s it for this week’s Cool Stuff. As always, questions and feedback are welcome in the comments below.

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Sony NEX-FS700 4K Sensor Camcorder

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 Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM

Remember, if you place your order this week by 11:59 PST, Sunday, May 12th, 2013 you can always schedule your rental anytime this year and STILL get the 25% off on your item!

Happy shooting, everyone!

Adventure photo journalist Jay Goodrich highlights how he uses exposure blending in Adobe Photoshop CS6 in order to add drama to an image that would otherwise be lackluster due to constraints such as being out at a poor time of day, rapidly-changing weather, odd angle of the subject, or when using a lens that doesn’t accommodate creative exposure-assisting filters, such as a variable neutral density filter. In this video tutorial, Goodrich shows how he exposure blends a subject that rises above the horizon during sunrise and sunset. (more…)

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Micro Four Thirds Digital Camera Body

Nikon 18-200mm AF-S f/3.5-5.6G DX VR II

Sony 24-70mm f/2.8 Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T*

Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L II USM

Remember, if you place your order this week by 11:59 PST, Sunday, May 5th, 2013 you can always schedule your rental anytime this year and STILL get the 25% off on your item!

Happy shooting, everyone!

Seán Duggan is a fine art photographer, author, educator and an Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert with extensive experience in both the traditional and digital darkroom. His Lightroom Viewfinders series provides photographers with the tools they need to effectively use Lightroom for organization, editing, and printing. In this episode, Duggan explains the under-the-hood settings and options involved in “round-tripping” raw files–that is, editing in Lightroom, then sending your file to Photoshop for more edits and then sending it back again without losing image quality or your layers. (more…)

We’re going to be at Photo Video West this weekend! We’ll be giving away a free rental as well as other great goodies from our booth–please pay us a visit at booth #209!

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We’ll have gear on-hand for visitors to try out, including a Nikon D4 and a Canon 1D X with a 500mm f/4G and a 500mm f/4 IS II.