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Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 20 September 2020
As photographers it can be difficult to know when not to take a photograph. Sometimes these moments are out of our control, perhaps based on ethical, moral or religious grounds. When I look back at the times I chose not to take a photograph one moment stands apart from the others. It was early morning and I was on a train enroute to my job at a paparazzi photo agency. I had a window seat, which was unusual and I noticed her immediately. It was the billowing blue floral dress that caught my eye, it was so summery, so joyous and yet the weather was bleak, cold, dark and it…
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App Art School – How to use Google Photos in 2020
Less than 15 minutes long, this video talks about Google Photos – what it is, how to use it, the core features, some common scenarios for using it, a deep dive into shared albums and how to use them with Google Assistant Displays, worth a listen… If you want to dive right in to the main topic chapters, just follow the links below Setting up Google Photos What can you do with Google Photos
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A Visual Tour of Alec Soth’s Bookshelf
If you’re anything like me, you will have read more books than had hot dinners, the former was always a priority. Alec Soth (of whom I am a huge fan) is not too different. In this unqiue video he gives shares a tour of his bookcase, it’s truly original, enjoy! Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by photographers like Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. Concerned with the mythologies and oddities that proliferate America’s disconnected communities, Soth has an instinct for the relationship between narrative and metaphor. His clarity…
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App Art School – Creating a fantasy composite in Affinity Photo with Affinity Revolution
Welcome to our brand new section within TheAppWhisperer.com entitled – App Art School. Within this section we publish a range of tutorials and videos from beginner, intermediate to professional demonstrating and inspiring editing techniques to help you adjust your photo art in the best possible way. In this session, Affinity Revolution will create a fantasy composite in Affinity Photo, guiding you through their process and showing you how to choose the right images for a composite, make great selections with the Pen Tool and blend images together. Affinity Photo retails for $/£19.99 and requires iOS 11.1 or later. Compatible with iPad.
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New Column ‘A Picture of Health’ Added to TheAppWhisperer.com Today
We are delighted to announce today a brand new column to TheAppWhisperer entitled ‘A Picture of Health’. Many of us have untold health issues and photography and art go a long way to enable us to feel included in parts of the world to which some of us feel excluded. For those affected, the website Rolling Paper has some useful articles on chronic health issues, symptoms and treatment options, and pain management too. I was inspired to create this section by iconic photographer, who has since died, Jo Spence. She was a British working class photographer who got into photography following a relative conventional route. She was employed as a…
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Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 6 September 2020
Many photographers draw on literary influences on which to base their images. Hannah Starkey used Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1832 poem The Lady of Shalott as a reference point for a body of work exhibited at Maureen Paley Gallery in 2010. In the poem, The Lady of Shalott is subject to a curse. She is only able to view the real world refectled through a mirror. Temptation ensues and she sneaks a glimpse at a knight’s shining sword, looks out of the window and dies. This is a very brief gist of the poem but the idea is that if you only view the world through shadows of reality through reflections…
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App Art School – Vector inking and colouring in Affinity Designer for iPad with Monez
Welcome to our brand new section within TheAppWhisperer.com entitled – App Art School. Within this section we publish a range of tutorials and videos from beginner, intermediate to professional demonstrating and inspiring editing techniques to help you adjust your photo art in the best possible way. In this session, join professional illustrator Monez as he shares his process for vector inking and colouring in Affinity Designer for iPad. Monez also provides the inking file for free (personal use only), so you can try out his colouring method as you watch. You can access the file via https://affin.co/LD2020Monez. Monez’s illustrations and large-scale murals appear on the walls of restaurants and Bali Zoo…
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App Art School – Hand Lettering in Affinity Designer for iPad with Tobias Hall
Welcome to our brand new section within TheAppWhisperer.com entitled – App Art School. Within this section we publish a range of tutorials and videos from beginner, intermediate to professional demonstrating and inspiring editing techniques to help you adjust your photo art in the best possible way. In this session, London-based illustrator and designer Tobias Hall shows you how he creates bespoke lettering using both raster and vector tools in Affinity Designer for iPad, walking you through his workflow from the initial sketching stage through to the final vector artwork. Affinity Designer retails for $/£19.99 and requires iOS 11.1 or later. Compatible with iPad.
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Aaron Schuman in Conversation
Following our publication of Stephen Shore in conversation with Britt Salvesen earlier this week and the feedback that ensued. We felt you that you would also like to view this recording of Aaron Schuman discussing his book SLANT as well as his inspirations and influences – from Emily Dickinson to Paul Strand – the intricate relationship between text and image, and a series of unusual crimes that took place in Amherst, Massachusetts. Enjoy!
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Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 23 August 2020
Not all self-portraiture includes the photographer, sometimes it is possible to use other people to stand in. I mentioned Sophie Calle‘s work last week and her series ‘Take Care of Yourself 2007-2009), is an example of this. Some photographers use people in a metaphoric sense, I’m thinking of Maria Kapajevea, in ‘A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, 2012-ongoing’) or some choose not to include anyone in the picture at all (Nigel Shafran, Washing-up 2000). All of these approaches are classified as self-absented portraiture, similar to self-portraiture but none include the photographer in a literal sense. In many ways, physically, I have started to feel that maybe I…