New Portfolio Slideshow of black & white photos from the last years. Those black and white images got some nice colors through the slideshow ink video effect. Check it out on youtube, don`t forget to enable HD quality.
Deserts, mine. Miles of Sand. New Portfolio Slideshow of Desert Landscapes all around the world. From the USA, Algeria, United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Morocco, Oman, Iceland, Qatar, Namibia, Bahrain, Canada, India, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Australia. Have fun watching 5min 30s of Desert Beauty.
New Saturday, New Portfolio Slideshow. After the Women Portrait Slideshow, now the new:
Oneeleven Men :: 111 Men Portraits Portfolio Slideshow from the years 2006-2016. Again a timemachine through a quick selection of portraits from the last decade…
If possible switch your youtube videos settings to the HD format, to get the best quality of the video, and to view it full screen in max. quality.
Just released another portfolio slideshow video today. Onefourone Women, a selection of 141 female portraits from the last ten years between 2006 and 2016. Those photos were mostly shot on iStockalypse Events or organized Minilypses. The selection and creation of the video alone is some sort of timemachine through the last 10 years of shooting portraits. If possible switch youtube to the HD format, to get the best quality of the video, and to view it full screen.
View over Horseshoe Canyon Formation in Summer under a blue Sky. The Horseshoe Canyon Formation is part of the Edmonton Group and is up to 230m in thickness. This Canyon gets its name from its horseshoe shape and is approximately 3 km long. The dark bands in the rock formations are coal seams. Horseshoe Canyon, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada.
Ancient iceberg with amazing shape and blue color in the south atlantic ocean. Antarctica Peninsula.
More photos from Antarctica in my Antarctica Photo Collection Lightbox:
…with a über-late happy new year to everybody following my photo blog. As I travelled between christmas 2010 and yesterday, there was simply no time for updates and answering emails…In the meantime a bunch of photos uploaded in late 2010 got accepted into my iStockphoto portfolio. So here are some samples of newly added images…stay tuned for a lot more photos to come in the next weeks and months.
Circle Squared, Modern Geisha Portrait
Disco Dance Japanese Night Club Party
Meditation Young Japanese Man Sitting in Zen Garden
Arctic North Polar Iceberg Greenland during Sunrise
Camel Safari in the Desert
Indian Elephant Convoy Amber Palace Jaipur
Arctic Polar Icebergs at Sunrise Greenland
India Hands of the Poor
India Photo Collection: New Dehli, Jaipur, Agra, Pushkar
Tokyo – Japan Photo Collection: People, Architecture and more
Arctic Collection: Greenland, Nuuk, Ilulissat and more.
New images processed from the berlin model photo shooting. Here are some….
People: Screaming, Yelling & Shouting
Seductive girls in hotel room
Madness, Crazy, Surreal and Bizarre People and Scenes
Seducing Girl in Lingerie
Polaroid Style & Cross Processed Photos
Screaming Shocked in Elevator
Vetta Images – Mlenny iStockphoto Collection (Random #1-200) – Mlenny iStockphoto Collection (Random #201-400) – Mlenny iStockphoto Collection (Random #401-600)
That was really fast and easy. Thanks to WordPress and the amazing WPtouch Plugin you`re – as a WordPress User – just some clicks away from having your blog ‘compatible’ to the Apple iPhone, the upcoming Apple iPad and more mobile devices. Really cool.
The Plugin automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a ‘web-application experience’ when viewed from an iPhone, iPod touch, Android, or BlackBerry Storm touch mobile device. So if you like to check out my blog on your Apple iPhone just give it a try.
It works with the common blog web adress (e.g. www.mlenny.com) on your browser, as It detects the user agents of these devices and serves up its custom theme.
I`m very curious about the new possibilities the Apple iPad might bring for photographers and especially for authors in the very near future. I`m sure at least a new momentum into the ‘content industry’ will pop up. We will see soon.
This February I added a chaotic mixture from different places to my iStockphoto Portfolio from my last trips. Here are some examples:
Airport Rush
New York Sixth Avenue Night Rush
Remote Farmhouse
Fishing Boat at Ortakoy Mosque Istanbul
Maui Black Sand Beach Wainapanapa State Park Hawaii
Dream Beach Napili Bay Maui Hawaii
Vetta Collection Images – last 200 sorted by age
Stock Photo Collection (Random #1-200)
Stock Photo Image Collection (Random #201-400)
Stock Photo Collection (Random #401-600)
Related Lightboxes in my iStock Portfolio:
Here is a quick end update of new images added to my istockphoto portfolio.
My Newest Images – Click here –
Praying man in Mosque
Blue Mosque at Night
Hagia Sophia Interior
Transmitters in the Sky
Night Scenes, Night and Twilight Shots, Landscapes, People, Architecture at Night
Turkey Collection: Istanbul and more.
Fairy Tales, Legends, Surreal, Mystic People, Details and more
New York City Photo Collection
Istanbul, Istanbul!
The trip to the european-asian melting pot rocked. The iStanbul, Turkey meet-up was an invite-only event organized by iStockphoto and Getty Images. 30 contributor from iStockphoto were selected from getty images to join seminars about the topic ‘Reportage/Editorial’ held by major players of the editorial industry. The people behind Getty Images Reportage: Aidan Sullivan, VP Assignments, Getty Images and Andreas Gebhard, Manager from Picture Desk, Getty Images Americas together with the photographer and photojournalist Tom Stoddart gave us a four day long seminar about insights, portfolios, how-to, do`s and dont’s all around the editorial, reportage and photojournalism topics at Getty Images. It was that interesting to see and hear about the different approaches, techniques and contents between stock photography for istockphoto and editorial, travel, reportage at getty images….wow, wow and again wow…
The very best thing of course -as always- on such “come-together events” is meeting, talking and partying with new and old friends from nearly everywhere on our Small World.
Again: Thanks for the invitation to this unique iStockalypse! And thanks for the new, future possibilities for my photo work! Way to go…
As we of course didn`t sit around all day in conference rooms, we shot a lot of images all around amazing Istanbul. Completly different photos than most of the 30 iStockers which participated usually take for their iStockphoto portfolios. The results everybody participating could see on the closing party photo slideshow were just beautiful. I can`t wait to see some of those images at Getty Images soon…
Here are some first images I shot during this Seminar -for the iStockphoto portfolio only- (These examples are of course not editorial, nor intended for Getty!):
…and some new 1080p videos from Iceland got approved at iStockvideo while beeing in turkey:
Icebergs Iceland Jokulsarlon Full HD 1080p
Central Iceland Flowing River Full HD 1080p
Jokulsarlon Icebergs Iceland II Full HD 1080p
My VideosClips, iStockvideo Collection
Panoramic Images and Wide Screen 16:9
More newly approved images into my iStockphoto Portfolio during my trip:
New York City Photo Collection
Autumn and Winter is coming quickly. The nights getting longer and longer. Time to go through my portfolio and process images I never had the time to finalize yet from the last travels. Here is the first bunch of new images from different places i added to the iStockphoto portfolio.
Squares – Square Format Photo Collection
Travel Pictures from all over the World. Landscapes, People, Landmarks
Vetta Collection Images – last 200 sorted by age
Stock Photo Collection (Random #1-200)
Stock Photo Image Collection (Random #201-400)
Stock Photo Collection (Random #401-600)
A quick update of new processed and uploaded images to my iStock Portfolio.This time it`s a recap of images and series I never found the time to finish yet. It`s a mixture of photos made in very different locations. The shots below were taken in Barcelona, Spain – Austin,Texas, USA – Frankfurt, Germany – New York, USA – London, UK – Hurghada, Egypt – Bali Island, Indonesia – Calgary, Alberta, Canada – Marseille, France and Crete Island, Greece. A colorful mixture of people, locations and landscapes.
People, Women and Men, Portraits and Scenes:
Mixed Travel Photos – It`s small world:
People, Women and Men and Models
Portraits, Stories, People, Characters
Buisnesspeople, Businesswomen and Businessmen
Still Collection: Objects, Artifacts, Food and more..
Greece Collection: Crete and North Greece
New York City Photo Collection
Canada Collection: Banff, Calgary, Drumheller, Rocky Mountains
Girls, Women and Men, Real People and Models
My very first royality managed image has of course to be one shot of my son Finn! He`s in my portfolio from the very beginning, when I started to contribute to iStockphoto back in September 2005. Now after 4 years my first Royality Managed photo simply has to be him as my model. If you like to see the last years, check this lightbox: Child collection – Life of a Boy.
So here it is: My first image in ‘The Image Bank” Getty Images RM Collection. Way to go…. Yipppppieeee!
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Some more images I recently added to my iStockphoto Portfolio:
Cheerful Scientists in Laboratory
Dream Beach Island Tourist Resort
Still Collection: Objects, Artifacts, Food and more..
Greece Collection: Crete and North Greece
New York City Photo Collection
Vetta Collection Images – last 200 sorted by age
Stock Photo Collection (Random #1-200)
Stock Photo Image Collection (Random #201-400)
Stock Photo Collection (Random #401-600)
Yesterday I returned from a short trip to Egypt visiting the beautiful red sea. Even though it was a pure business trip I found some time to dive in the amazing underwater world of the red sea there. New images from that trip will follow soon. Right before that trip I visited Greece. Travelled there all along the island of Crete and afterwards to North Greece (Alexandroupolis). There was not much time to edit many new images in between both trips. So my ‘images to process’ queue is growing very fast. There are still many images from Canada and New York City waiting to be finished. So here is a quick update of new images I added to my portfolio in between those trips:
New iStockphoto Images September 2009:
Deep Blue – Apnoe Diving Young Boy
Crete Spinalonga Fortress Greece – Last Active Leprosy Colony
Ancient Knossos Palace Crete Greece
Egnatia Odos Highway Connecting Greece-Turkey
Vetta Collection Images – last 200 sorted by age
Stock Photo Collection (Random #1-200)
Stock Photo Image Collection (Random #201-400)
Stock Photo Collection (Random #401-600)
New York City Photo Collection
Canada Collection: Banff, Calgary, Drumheller, Rocky Mountains
French Polynesia, Tahiti, Bora Bora, Cook Islands & More.
Dubai & United Arab Emirates
Polaroid Style & Cross Processed Photos
Azores Islands: San Miguel, Pico, Faial
USA – Utah, Nevada, California, Texas and more
Men and Boys – Male Photo Collection
Women and Girls – Female Photo Collection
I`m playing around with Facebook Fan Pages….want to join the testing?
Here is a new overview of my couple and people group shot collection. After my post from early April: Women Model Portfolio Collection – here is an overview of couple and group stock photos from my portfolio. There are now more then 1000 images auf pairs, groups and couples in my istockphoto you can see the collection in the ‘Beautiful Couples – Men and Women‘ Lightbox.
Another overview from the work of the last years. More images you find here.
Business, Buisnesspeople, Businesswomen and Businessmen
Young Couples, Women and Men, Group and Teams.
200 iStockphoto Stock Photo Collection Images (in Random Order)..Just CLICK
iStockphoto Stock Photo Collection (Random #201-400)
iStockphoto Stock Photo Collection (Random #401-600)
It`s time again for a quick update of some images I found in use on websites or in magazins, newspapers or posters from my istockphoto portfolio. Thanks to everyone sending my scans, screenshots, photos or pages out of magazines.
Tranquility. Lonely Pier towards Taha’a Island:
With over 62.000 (!) free downloads from istockphoto, my ‘Free Picture of the Week’ (FPOTW) is the most downloaded image in my istockportfolio portfolio. Thanks to Nikada for letting me know. I`m sure that I will find more usages of this image in the future as more than 62.000 downloads is a really, really big download number. The ‘mirrored’ usage as a background for an article about “Self-Invested Personal Pensions” was the first I saw.
Wind Turbine in Twilight Landscape:
The Wind Turbine photo from south germany was found as a key visual in the technoical section of the DTM CAS website, a Tax Planning & Tax Structuring Service Company in Budapest, Hungary.
TÜV Rheinland in Germany used a holiday snapshot of my son Finn (while he was 3 years young) swimming with swimming goggles in the turquoise lagoon of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia. Here you find the website.
That’s a really funny one! Club Fellini in Barcelona put Ivar on the Erasmus Party Poster. This ultra-wide 14mm party shot was actually taken on a boat trip around the mediterranean Island of Malta during the Ref5esh 2008. Anyway the beer is 100% real :-), and thanks for the invention of Autofocus – without that –this shot– wouldn`t be possible *g*.
The photo on the above right was taken in the Death Valley, California, USA. Originally there was a ‘Road Subject to Flash Flood Warning’ on the sign which I retouched – removed before uploading to iStockphoto to give designers more flexibilty to include their own message on the road sign. ‘West Campus’ and the ‘Arrow forward’ was put on the photo later on. A nice proof that my thoughts about removing the original letters and signs from the road sign worked out for the designer.
The original landscape shot on the right of Antarctica Glacier Mountains was used as a background for the ‘Celebration of Light’ event in the Colony Theater Miami, USA. The event was organised from DancenowMiami.
Parallel Perspectives – iStockphoto Charity Book:
iStockphoto produced at blurb.com an awesome photobook. Here’s the capion: “We’ve made it our business to document the world that surrounds us, to send in dispatches from every outpost. These are our bread and butter, but they also represent 65,000 different testimonials of the world as we see it. Those testimonials, taken together, make a kind of visual atlas of the world, the kind that isn’t made by tourists and travelers, but by real people sharing personal moments, private epiphanies, and the revelatory happenings that make up a day in all of our lives.” -iStock CEO and Founder Bruce Livingstone, from the introduction. All proceeds of this book are donated to charity.
My photo of Antarctic King Penguins in the Rain at the beach of South Georgia made it into this book. It made me really proud to be among those photographers and images. The book is really woth every cent and I hope this might be an annual book! You can preview it here.
If you like the ‘Lost & Found Category’ you can find earlier ‘Episodes’ in my blog here.
What a beautiful surprising morning. Today I received a voucher copy of the UK Magazine Photoshop Creative Issue 45. Some weeks ago the magazine contacted me about an image they like to use in the magazine and include it in on the CD-ROM which comes together with the print issue. And today i saw the result – just awesome.
In the march issue 45 Photoshop Creative Magazine used one of my images I took in Marseille of Model Agathe Rolland at the Palais Longchamps for an Adobe Photoshop Tutorial about ‘How to add atomespheric mist and smoke’ into an image. It`s really amazing to see my image in an ‘before’ and ‘after applying the effect’ on a large full size printed magazine page. For the tutorial the magazine licenced this photo out of my portfolio from istockphoto:
The Photoshop Creative Tutorial from Tim Shelbourne shows in 15 easy steps how to adjust the original image and how to add smoke and mist into this image. The result is really cool. Even on the large full size print of the magazine I couldn`t see that the smoke was added ‘artificial’ with Photoshop CS4. So here you can see (a bad scan) of the result (page 55 of the magazine). The quality of my scan below is really much worser then the original in the magazine.
After Effect: Create Drama with Smoke and Mist Page 55 Photoshop Creative Magazin Issue 45
You can go through all of the 15 steps to achieve the result above. Click on the thumnails below to see the larger, readable scans of the tutorial pages 54-57:
The better and more comfortable way is to buy the magazine. The Photoshop Creative Magazine includes a CD-ROM, where all images (before/after) are availabe together with a lot more tips – more tutorials + Custom Adobe Brushes, actions etc. And there’s also a tutorial video (Smoke_Effects.mov) included how to apply the effect on the image.
Here is an overview:
Techniques
All the latest and greatest techniques including;
– Make colours pop with selective lack and white techniques
– Give dull skies a makeover using texture
– Use the Warp tool to create a distorted glass effect
Creative Tutorials
Easy-to-follow creative tutorials including;
– Learn how to add dramatic smoke to your photos
– Easy tips to transform flat illustrations into vibrant artwork
– Create beautiful mixed media designs in Photoshop
Also Featured
– Turn your photos in to stunning watercolour paintings
– Restore old photos using Channels
– Create a Picasso-style portrait from photographs
This Magazine is really worth the 6 UK Pound.
