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TIME’s Lightbox Follow Friday Photographer Series
TIME Lightbox have a wonderful new series where they feature the work of photographers using Instagram in new and engaging ways. Each week they introduce a photographer befind their feed through his or her images and follow it up with an interview. The latest photographer to be picked up is Matt Black (@mattblack_blackmatt), who charts the physical terrain of economic inequality in his Geography of Poverty project. He says Instagram has allowed him to explore the connection between cartography and photography as he builds a map of modern poverty in pictures. Really fascinating, read and view more here.
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Mobile Photography Interview – A Day In The Life Of Giulia Baita – A Beautiful and Very Talented Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting interview column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our 108th installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring very talented mobile photographer Giulia Baita. Baita was born near Florence (Italy): her mother was a teacher of Latin and Greek, and her father was in the military. Her grandparents were also both military, Carabinieri to be precise.…
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‘Impossible’ Interview with Florian, a.k.a. Ouen or Flø
We’re delighted to be working closer with The Impossible Project team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and…
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Portrait of an Artist – First Video Showcase – Mobile Portraiture
Welcome to our first Portrait of an Artist Showcase! This Showcase complements our Portrait of an Artist Column edited by Jennifer Bracewell. Every two weeks Jennifer will review and curate work that has been submitted to our dedicated Flickr group. In addition, to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we will also highlight a few images that have caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how)…
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Flickr Updates iOS App – Now Include ‘Add Photos to Groups’
Many of you will be so relieved that Flickr have updated their iOS Photography app again. The previous version, updated on April 17th 2014, did not include the facility to add photos to groups – a feature that had been there originally. We received many messages from frustrated readers and rightly so! Fortunately this has now been rectified, in order to add photos to groups, select the image, tap the share arrow and then tap ‘add to group’. Stability fixes have also been run through this update. Click here to update Flickr on your iOS device
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iOS Photography Tutorial – Through a Glass Darkly: Taking a Look at Blurs by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest technical iOS photography tutorial. This week Jerry tackles blurs and demonstrates how they can be used creatively in your art. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). I was inspired to write this tutorial when I encountered a free offer for an app. It seemed that all this app would do is blur your image severely. You might think “Why would I want to do that? I struggle to make my images as sharp as possible!” But blurs have their uses, and I thought I’d show you a few. We’re going to be working with this image, which I created…
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iOS Photography Apps 645 PRO Mk II and PureShot – Updated – We Have Codes To Share!
Mike Hardaker developer of the very successful iOS Photography apps, 645 PRO Mk II and PureShot, to name a few has just informed me that both apps have been updated with support for the Snappgrip hardware add on. It achieved huge success via a 2013 KickStarter campaign. As well as support for the hardware, users of the apps will get a 20% discount on the Snappgrip hardware, if you buy via the link embedded within the apps’ menu and not only that – Mike has also given us some codes to share with our loyal readers too. So, if you haven’t already picked up these apps, reply to this post,…
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SAMSUNG TO HOST “SAMSUNG GEAR APP CHALLENGE” FOR GEAR 2 APPS
Samsung Electronics announced that it will be holding a worldwide app challenge for Gear 2 app developers, “Samsung Gear App Challenge”, to support the wearable app market. The challenge will be the third in the series of “Samsung Smart App Challenges” and is part of Samsung’s plan to continuously innovate the wearable app industry. After unveiling the Samsung Gear 2 for the first time in February, Samsung distributed a software development kit (SDK) for the Gear 2 to developers free of charge. Developers can apply for the challenge by registering apps developed with the SDK on Samsung Apps from 8th May. The prizes for the challenge amounts to over…
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Apple Expands Capital Return Program to Over $130 Billion
Apple today announced that its Board of Directors has authorised another significant increase to the Company’s program to return capital to shareholders. The Company expects to utilise a total of over $130 billion of cash under the expanded program by the end of calendar 2015. As part of the program, the Board has increased its share repurchase authorisation to $90 billion from the $60 billion level announced last year. The Company expects to continue to utilise about $1 billion annually to net-share-settle vesting restricted stock units. Additionally, the Board has approved an increase to the Company’s quarterly dividend of approximately 8 percent and has declared a dividend of $3.29 per…
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Streets Ahead – Thirty Fifth Edition – Mobile Street Photography
Welcome to the thirty fifth edition of “Streets Ahead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general. So, if…