Hipstamatic Releases New Tintype SnapPak
This is a brand new in-app purchase from the developers of Hipstamatic. It comes complete with the Tinto 1884 Lens, the D-Type Plate Film and C-Type Plate film for $0.99/£0.69.
Ryan Dorshorst, Co-founder of Hipstamatic describes the creation of this new pack, thus: “I’m super stoked for us to release the new Tintype SnapPak, and wanted to give you all a little insight into how it works. The team has been obsessed over the last few months with tintype photography, so Aravind (our creative director) and I sat down recently and tried to figure out how we could bring it to Hipstamatic.
Some of the key components with tintypes are extremely shallow depth of field as well as an eerie and surreal focus on the eyes. We’ve written some pretty complex processing and are using iOS’s face detection technology in order to create this very specific focus on the face and eyes (though it also works great when shooting things other than people). This is all part of the new Tinto 1884 Lens.
From there we moved on to developing the films, and for these we were specifically inspired by the rich black and whites of daguerreotypes and also the tradition of hand-painted photos that was common before color photography was more prevalent and economical. From this inspiration we built the D-Type Plate Film and the C-Type Plate Film.
Processing Time: The technology and design behind this SnapPak is by far our most complex to-date. Therefore, it takes a bit longer to process these prints than when using our other lenses and films. We hope you’ll be okay with this, because the results are absolutely stunning, and, we think, worth the time”.
This SnapPak requires the latest version of Hipstamatic, if you haven’t upgraded or even downloaded it yet, go here to do so.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
One Comment
Cathus
Hmm, every time I use this new lens, Hipstamatic just crashes out. Using an iPhone 4S with IOS 6.01