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Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Scientific Review: Bigger and Better – Official Technical Test
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 Apple’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. The DxOMark tests represent the official gold standard scientific data and is the industry standard. Kevin/DxOMark have compared the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus to notable smartphones in the industry, as well as between each other, as you will see in the report. DPReview use Kevin’s scientific data in their reviews, as they show here, “The DxOMark team reports the iPhone 6 shows “very good overall exposure, impressive autofocus performance in both low and bright…
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Hipstamatic Launches ‘Cause Beautiful’ Philanthropic Foundation – Empowering Young People
Hipstamatic have launched a philanthropic foundation called Cause Beautiful, the aim is to help inner-city kids use photography to document their own communities. It has launched under the direction of Luanne Dietz, an Emmy Award Winning Photographer and former staff member at the San Francisco Chronicle. Cause Beautiful is a 501c3 that offers a mobile photography project focused on empowering inner-city youth, along with providing grants to fund photographers and their work. To Cause Change is to Cause Beautiful. “The foundation’s goal is simple.” said Dietz. “We believe that photography has the ability to change the world.” ‘I am really excited about this new foundation launched by Hipstamatic and am…
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Streets Ahead Interview: Heline Lam – Mobile Street Photography
This week, the Women’s Street Photography Collective (Streets Ahead) is pleased and honoured to feature Heline Lam in our interview segment. Heline’s street photography shows her ability to hone in on moments around her, capturing the essence of whatever city she happens to be in. Her surreal images are different sides to her body of work. They combine her love of architecture and geometry with the human element that she captures on the street. You can see some of her work here: http://www.thephoblographer.com/2014/07/15/surreal-world-heline-lam/#.VCB-h7EazCR Heline’s work has been featured in The App Whisperer’s Flickr group showcase as well as the Streets Ahead column, Mobiography, Art of Mob, EyeEm, The Phoblographer and…
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‘Impossible’ Interview with Meghan Davidson
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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iColorama and iColorama S – On Sale Today
Both the iPhone and iPad versions of iColorama are on sale today. This is a very comprehensive, popular and regularly updated app. Usually both apps retail for $2.99/£1.99 each but today they are available for $1.99/£1.49. Click below to download. iColorama S – iPhone/download iColorama – iPad/download
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Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – 21 September 2014
This weeks Flickr Group Showcase is another fabulously filled array of incredible mobile photography and art images from all around this world. The depth and talent that all you artists have never ceases to amaze me, it’s an absolute pleasure to curate and view your work each week, thank you. 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: Keisuke Takahashi, Diana Nicholette Jeon, Marco Lamberto, mutablend, Ade…
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100-50-1: Fifty of the World’s Most Talented Mobile Photographers
A new exhibition opening in San Francisco next month is gaining momentum. Entitled 100 portraits, 50 photographers, 1 camera, the show is produced in conjunction with The NWBLK. This show is said to feature the work of fifty of the worlds most talented mobile photographers – I am quite sure we could add a lot more to this list. Still, it’s interesting, follow this link to learn more.
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iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Extensive Camera Review – In Iceland
With the excitement growing and many of you getting your hands on the Apple iPhone 6 Plus for the very first time today, we thought you would be interested in reading and watching this interesting video, putting the iPhone 6 Plus camera to the test, in Iceland. Travel Photographer Austin Mann partnered with Apple and The Verge on the night of the Keynote and took the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 5s on a mission, to discover what the new devices mean for us, the photographers. The images from this trip are outstanding, the Focus Pixels helped with the poor light. Mann also joined the Icelandic Coast Guard…
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StreetVIEW – ‘A Small Drinking Town with an Art Problem’ by Laura Peischl
We’re truly delighted to publish this wonderful article by our Columnist Laura Peischl who’s travelling the US right now with her fabulous companion Adria Ellis. As well as writing the text, Laura sent us some beautiful mobile images from her trip. We have put these together into a video showcase with the music of her choice, ‘Smoke a little Smoke’ by Eric Church (link), don’t miss this. Postcards from Marfa Image ©Laura Peischl “The moment I heard about Marfa I was intrigued and couldn’t help myself but google it immediately. What I found out about this small town puzzled me and made me want to know more, better, drive there…
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iPad Photography Tutorial – iColorama 3.83 – Can it get any better? Yes
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s newest iPad photography tutorial, this time looking at the latest update to the uber popular iColorama app, don’t miss this. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). iColorama retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here. I had fully intended to write a beginner tutorial for iColorama. Even though this is my twelfth article on iColorama, I have yet to go over the basics of moving around in this marvelous app. But then this past Sunday Release 3.83 was approved by the App Store, and I knew that the new features should be covered first. So what’s new in Release 3.83? A couple of bug fixes…