Post Process

http://1x.com/learning/?read=490093

Browsing through the 1x website, there are some photographers out there that are willing to show people how they got certain shots through their process of shooting and post editing. It's interesting to see some of the shots that you can get through editing with photoshop and how far along technology has come to be able to do that. There are some things out there and its awesome to know how they are done.
This was a shot done with a lot of shooting and a lot of step by step process of how he got it to the final results of what you see now.

Cinemagraphs

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/cinemagraph/

Something that I have seen for a few years now, but have never actually looked into are cinemagraphs. They are something between a digital photo and video. It's a video where certain parts of it are frozen into a photo while other parts play a continuous motion.