finger pointing friday: 1/16/09 edition

I've been scouring cyberspace to find you the best of the best in recent photography tips, tricks, gadgets, software, websites and more. Hope some of these float your boat as they have mine.

• Terrific blogpost from digital photography school with plenty of links to posing tutorials
• Squeeze the Lime offers us a video with tips regarding directing your subjects
• Photojojo cautions us to backup our computers and suggests Backblaze. Read here.
• PhotoWalkPro talks about Pixlr, an online image editing app. It's no Photoshop, but its darned good for free!
• I want to revisit Photojojo's spylens. I just got mine! I can't wait to try it out bigtime tomorrow.
• I also got a pair of these hotshoe and umbrella brackets. Looking forward to giving these a try, too.
• A new lens that might just make you go hhmmmmm......
• Cool lighting mods from Popular Photography
• Interested in gorgeous, gigantic, photojournalism!?!?! Of course you are! Check out The Boston Globe's The Big Picture .
• Shutterbug and Photokina offer up some terrific new storage and frame options