In May 2010, I was contacted by Patrick Hall and Lee Morris of Fstoppers.com and they asked me to share my knowledge of headshot photography in a behind the scenes format. The resulting Fstoppers original video (http://fstoppers.com/fstoppers-original-peter-hurley-exposes-the-perfect-headshot) was a huge hit and exposed my work to a large audience of photographers.

Storyline: It's the Depression, and everyone needs to hold onto a dream to get them through the bad times. Car maker Charles Howard is no different, he who is trying to rebuild his life after the tragic death of his only child and the resulting end of his first marriage. With second wife Marcela at his side, Charles wants to get into horse racing and ends up with a team of underdogs who are also chasing their own dream. The first is trainer Tom Smith, who has a natural instinct to spot the capabilities of horses. The second is the horse Tom chooses for Charles, Seabiscuit, an unconventional choice as despite his pedigreed lineage, Seabiscuit is small at fifteen and a half hands tall with a slight limp. But Tom can see something in Seabiscuit's nature to make him a winner, if only Seabiscuit can be retrained from his inbred losing ways. And third is the jockey they decide to hire, Johnny ''Red'' Pollard...

Prosperous professional couple Mike and Christine are settling in for a standard evening of wine, TV and low-level marital hostility when a ring on their doorbell changes everything. Turns out their son Sebastian is in a little trouble with some local boys, who are quite prepared to camp out and wait for him to get home... The resulting culture-clash chamber drama is raw, revealing and nerve-splittingly tense.

The Gotthard Base Tunnel is in fact two main parallel tunnels measuring a record-breaking 57km each, served by a maze of access tunnels, shafts and passages. In total you'll encounter 153.5 km of tunnel in the Swiss Alps. The project may be conceived to solve the matter of heavy European traffic for this major route in the Alps, while simultaneously developing Europe's high-speed rail network. The prevailing tunnel, better up, are only able to handle three-truck freight trains as high as 2,000 tons. The fresh tunnel will need 4,000 ton heavy freight trains - carrying entire trucks agreeable - effortlessly in the heart on the mountains. Passenger trains should be able to travel at speeds as high as 250kmph, resulting in a train journey time between Zurich and Milan of just two hours and 40 minutes - a third a lot less than at this time.

Radical Image Optimization Tool (RIOT for short) is a free image optimizer that will let you to visually adjust compression parameters while keeping minimum filesize.
It uses with a side by side (dual view) or single view interface to compare the original with the optimized image in real time and instantly see the resulting file size.
It is lightweight, fast and simple to use, yet powerful for advanced users. You will be able to control compression, number of colors, metadata settings and much more, and select image format (JPG, GIF or PNG) for your output file.

Total Recorder is a multi-purpose audio and video recording software program with a wide variety of editing and sound processing capabilities. You can record streaming audio, Mic input, or Line-in input from external devices connected to your PC. The resulting files are saved on your computer's hard-drive.

KeyShot is a means of interactive visualization of 3D scenes and models. How to declare themselves the developers are - a digital camera for 3D models, as a result you get in real time. Taking into account that uses global illumination and materials based on real physical parameters, the resulting images are photographic quality. The program can work as a standalone application or as a supplement (plugin), with the following formats: OBJ, Autodesk Alias Maya, FBX, 3DS, Rhinoceros Plugin, SketchUp, SolidWorks, Pro ENGINEER Plugin, ALIAS, JT.