Shooting in Death Valley

Ilford film manufacturing

Vintage Celebrity Portraits

Recently I discovered an interesting series of vintage photographs on vintage everyday.
The post was entitled "30 Amazing and Interesting Portraits of Celebrities with Their Vintage Cameras".

Now, the title is a bit misleading since at the tame of respective image capture these cameras were nothing but vintage. It is rather a series of vintage portraits and self portraits of celebrities with cameras.

There is no major celebrity missing in this photo stream. And it shows that now and then celebrities were taking pictures for their memories just as the everyday person. This even with the same type of cameras.

Ok, the Queen of the UK was using quite an expensive Leica camera, but at the time this was a frequently used device.

The same camera Brad Pit was using for his self portrait.

While almost all celebrities in the series are shooting handheld range finder or SLR cameras, Angelina Jolie is working - or at least posing - with a decent large format camera.
I am wondering what picture came out of that shot?

Image Processing - Color Grading

Some recommendations on how to work on colors in digital image processing.

Featured Photographer - Nu Parnupong

I am impressed by the work of underwater photographer Nu Parnupong.

I can recommend having a look at for example his flickr portfolio.

Here Nu is showing amazing images of whale sharks. He is a true master of wide angle underwater photography.

Furthermore there are images from mobula rays feeding on sardines. A spectacle captured in wide angle still images which allow to feel the dynamics of that scenery.

Or more images of humpback whales in sardine run in South Africa.

A true master of underwater photography.

Nu Parnupong - Flickr

Diving Alor and Flores

Diving in Alor and Flores (Indonesia) underwater footage from Undersea Productions on Vimeo.

Black and White - Switzerland Photography

The Matterhorn in shrouds - Steve Large (500px)

Chilean Castle (Lake Leman) | Schloss Chillon (Genfersee) - Franz Engels (500px)

Basel in Grey - Loris Oehen (500px)

Zurich - Farhad Salami (500px)

porto regionale di locarno - Gomes Jorge (500px)