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D-ive – First Mobile Photography Festival in Spain
This weekend – April 19th, 20th & 21st, 2013 will see the first mobile photography festival in Spain at the Edificio Disseny Hub Barcelona. There’s plenty on with conferences, workshops, photo-walks, masterclasses, speakers’ corner and more. Fernando Prats, who we have featured several times on theappwhisperer.com, will be presenting a workshop “Photographing in HDR”, this saturday, in four sessions. Fernando will be in constant contact with us throughout the weekend, reporting on all the events and the event as it unfolds. Keep checking back for that. If you would like to learn more about the event – go here.
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Instaflash – Temporarily Free
Instaflash is a popular app for iPhone photography that allows you to instantly correct your underexposed images. This app usually retails for $0.99/£0.69 but today you can download it for free. Click here to do so.
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iSights – ‘A Day At The Zoo’ – By Janine Graf
We are delighted to publish Janine Graf’s latest article to her iSights Column with us. This time Janine explains the background to the animals that we have all grown so fond of and make up her wonderful mobile photographic images. This is a seriously good read, don’t miss this. Over to you Janine (forward by Joanne Carter). "Hi everybody! This month I thought I would share some information about the animals I use in my images; specifically the rhinoceros and the giraffe. I’ve received emails and comments from people over the past several months who are curious about these animals. The most common question being, “Are these animals stock…
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Virgin Money Giving and Holly Branson help Charities use Technology to Boost Donations
Virgin Money Giving has teamed up with Holly Branson to launch its new mobile website, designed in partnership with Usablenet, which will allow charities of all sizes take advantage of digital technology to boost donations in difficult economic circumstances. This comes as charitable donations are reported to be at their lowest in real terms since 2004-5. Virgin Money Giving, the not-for-profit online donation service, is partnering with its patron Holly Branson to launch its mobile website. The newly optimised site, created in partnership with mobile and multichannel leader, Usablenet, will support fundraisers by providing a greater choice for donating ahead of the Virgin London Marathon and for other…
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Public Beta Now Available
Adobe today announced the availability of Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 5 beta for Windows® and Mac. Adobe Lightroom is the essential photography workflow application allowing photography enthusiasts and professionals to enhance, organize and share photos. The Lightroom 5 beta offers a free, public preview of new features and tools that will be offered in the final release, expected later this year. “Lightroom is the essential tool for busy professional and discerning amateur photographers, who are uncompromising in the pursuit for image quality or searching for artistic expression,” said Winston Hendrickson, vice president of digital imaging products, Adobe. “The Lightroom 5 beta is highly valuable in ensuring the new features support and…
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Vision & Voice – ‘What Is Vision, What Is Voice’? – By Cindy Patrick
We are truly delighted to publish our Columnist Cindy Patrick’s first article to her Vision & Voice section with us. This is an incredibly inspiring read and one that we know you are all going to love – don’t miss this. Over to you Cindy (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I started using the iPhone as a creative tool in 2010, and somewhere between then and now I stumbled my way – or should I say “apped” my way – into creating a distinctive personal style. My iPhone is my constant companion, and creating art with it has become my passion. Perhaps you are just starting out and wondering…
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Schneider Releases iPro Series 2 Lenses for iPhone – New Macro Lens Announced
We are delighted to announce that Schneider have released a brand new iPro Series 2 system. The system now includes two additional lenses to the earlier fisheye, wide-angle and 2x tele. Perhaps most exciting, is the announcement of the new macro lens. We published our Expert Review on the earlier system sometime ago, if you missed that, please go here. The new system will be available in mid to late May and includes a brand new iPhone 5 case. There will be a starter pack available, or you can buy the lenses individually. We will have more information on this very soon. Check out the video below:
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Our Daily App Giveaway – Star Walk
Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer. We value our readers so much and that’s why we want to share our love of apps with you. Each day we give away free apps, better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’re giving away the newly updated Star Walk app. Star Walk is an absolutely fabulous star gazing app, it really is. Usually this app retails for $2.99/£1.99. Would you like to try this app for free? Then join our ever expanding Twitter followers and Facebook fans, RETWEET THIS POST and send a reply to the bottom of this page telling us what you love most…
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InstaFisheye – LOMO Fisheye Lens for Instagram
InstaFisheye is a popular app for iPhone photography that’s currently going free today. There are still in-app purchases to pick up but at least you won’t have the initial outlay. Click here to download for free.
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The App Whisperer – Flickr Group Showcase – April 14, 2012
We have put together another very special Flickr group showcase , our thirtheenth of 2013 with some of our favorite images and some great new talent that have been uploaded to our Flickr group – Mobile Photography & Imagery, this week. The quality of submissions continues to rise, so we have decided to make our showcases that much bigger to incorporate as much of this stunning mobile art and photography as we can and to get it out to a wider audience. Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: Bob Sprankle, Lee Thatcher, Kajalschlampen, JQ Gaines, Ali Di Gangi, Elodie Hunting, Thomas Kakareko, BlemishedEye,…