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Samsung SMART Camera and Getty Images Launch Industry Leading Global Partnership
Samsung Electronics and the global digital media company Getty Images, today announced a new partnership at the annual Samsung European Forum. Samsung and Getty Images have joined forces with the single-minded ambition to help people across the world share their stories through the power of photography. “Partnering with an iconic brand like Getty Images is an ideal endeavour for Samsung. Getty Images is the perfect partner to allow our customers to share their individual stories from across the world, faster and through better quality images than ever before,” said Stephen Taylor, Vice President Brand and Retail, Samsung Electronics Europe. “Through this partnership, we hope to empower a generation of aspiring…
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Are Smartphones Comparable to Compacts & DSLRs – Kevin Carter Takes A Look Via DxOMark
Kevin Carter our Head of Technical Hardware as well as the Lead Technical Editor for DxOMark and the British Journal of Photography among others, recently pitched the Nokia Lumia 1020 sensor against various DSLR’s and compact cameras to try and decipher whether mobiles really are comparable in terms of image quality. Kevin says, “recent media reports claim that sales of digital compacts have been hit hard by the increasing popularity of the smartphone, and, as a result, several camera manufacturers have ceased production of low-end models. With their convenience and connectivity along with the emergence of social media sites it’s not difficult to see why a smartphone would be more…
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Nokia Lumia 1020’s RAW Image Quality – DxOMark/Kevin Carter Takes A Look
Kevin Carter our Head of Technical Hardware as well as the Lead Technical Editor for DxOMark and the British Journal of Photography among others, recently tested the Nokia Lumia 1020’s RAW Image quality. DPReview use Kevin’s scientific data in their reviews, as they say here, ‘With the device now capturing images in DNG Raw format our partners at DxOMark have been able to put the Lumia 1020 through its Raw-based sensor testing and compared it to hundreds of cameras in its database. Considering that we are looking at a smartphone, the results are pretty interesting. With a DxOMark sensor score of 41 points, the Nokia 1020 ranks 222 out of…
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BlemishedEye Mobile Images Accompanied By British Composer, Edmund Hunt’s Music
We were delighted when David Booker aka BlemishedEye contacted us last week with news of this wonderful project that he had embarked upon with British Composer, Edmund Hunt. David contacted Edmund last year to ask if he might consider creating a piece of music to accompany some of his very special images. The result is quite spectacular. David explains, “After familiarising himself with my photography, he obliged and in early January 2014 sent me a short composition entitled ‘Ungelic is Us’ (a line from the Old English poem Wulf and Eadwacer, meaning ‘it is different for us’). This video is the resulting collaboration”. Edmund’s work has been played in the UK and…
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The App Nerds Workshop – New Year Perspective Shift – By Lola Mitchell
We’re delighted to publish Lola Mitchell’s latest article to her App Nerds Workshop column with us. In case you’re new to this wonderful column we wanted to give you a little background. Lola’s bi-weekly Column is called ‘The App Nerds Workshop‘. It is a virtual classroom, an environment for new talent to share their work, for Lola to share some of the ways she uses apps and for the not so new talent to share some secrets. Lola sometimes assigns broad themes to keep the creative juices flowing. Your minds will be tickled into creating, experimenting, daring, dreaming, making and doing. We have a dedicated Flickr group where you can…
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Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – January 26, 2014
We have just finished curating this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase, it is totally outstanding and full of incredible mobile photography and art. It is a joy to curate and a pleasure to view. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, Please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here. With many thanks to our Flickr Group Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: Mariko Klug, goyoxis, Shel Serkin, Brandon Kidwell, Nick Kenrick, Erika Brothers, Anne-Martine Parent, Ryan Vaarsi, mutablend, Liz Traynor, Mohsen Chinehkesh, Keisuke Takahashi, Mainstream withexplicitdreams – devine1225aaa,…
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Tickle Your Fancy – #24
Welcome back to our twenty fourth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Olivia Arthur…
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Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 18 – By Donna Donato
Welcome back to the eighteenth article in the Column, Mobile Movies. We at TheAppWhisperer have been inspired by the Flickr upgrade of 1 Terabyte of storage for everyone and have wanted to launch a mobile movie section for some time. Now seems to be perfect, the new Flickr upgrade will allow for a full three minutes of 1080p HD quality video per single film and you can have as many as you have storage space for. Each week I (you can find me on Flickr here) will curate the movie uploads to our new Flickr group –MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer – I will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the chosen ones. ”The…
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iOS Photography App – Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor – Temporary Price Drop
Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor is a popular app for iOS photo editing and it’s one that we’ve publsihed a series of tutorials on recently by Jerry Jobe. If you’ve missed those, please go here. Usually Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor retails for $2.99/£1.99 but today you can pick it up for only $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
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iOS Photography App – PhotoToaster – Available For Less Today
PhotoToaster is a great app and one that many of our regular contributors and columnists use often. It’s a good image editor with quality adjustments and also fabulous effects. Usually PhotoToaster retails for $2.99/£1.99 but today you can pick it up for $1.99/£1.49 – click here to download.