Flare iPhone App Launches Video Contest and Slashes Price
To celebrate being featured as the App of the Day on Gizmodo, Flare, is sponsoring the Share your Flare contest. The top prize will go to the best and most creative video shot with Flare. In order to open the contest to more creative individuals, Flare has lowered its price this week to $0.99.
Having released just one week ago, Flare rose to the top of the App Store charts, reaching as high as the top 50 paid overall and #6 in the Photography category. To celebrate the success, a video contest has just launched. The aim of the contest is to show off the various features of the app such as independent focus, exposure, and white balance controls, as well as zoom for video.
The effects of the app are unparalleled, and this is the main thing it is hoped to show by the contest entries. As quoted by Gizmodo:
"Flare is the best because it was the only one bold enough – technology be damned – to introduce it to your phone". The contest entrants have the option of using any of the effects that come standard with the app.
The contest is currently running and submissions will be accepted until June 30, 2011.
Contest Details
The prize is a white, engraved Apple iPad 2 for the best video overall. Finalists are chosen by public voting, and a panel of judges will pick a winner from those selected finalists.
Use the advanced features of Flare such as independent exposure, focus, and white balance, as well as the disruptive video effects, to create a unique and engaging video clip between 10 seconds and 7 minutes.
Editing is suggested but not required. However, no effects or post-processing is allowed. You must film your clips with Flare for iPhone. Music and sound effects are permitted. But again, the only video effects allowed are those that were filmed in real-time with Flare. They will disqualify any entries that do not follow these guidelines.
Contest Starts
June 09, 2011 @ 10:01 am (PDT)
Contest Ends
June 30, 2011 @ 10:01 am (PDT)
Feature Highlights
* Effects live on screen – no delay
* Focus independently of exposure – just tap then drag
* Pinch to zoom
* Easily lock white balance, exposure, and focus by tapping
* Share full quality videos to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, Flickr, and more
* Independent focus and exposure available on devices which support focus control
Device Requirements
* iPhone 3GS or later, iPod touch 4G, and iPad 2
* Requires iPhone OS 4.1 or later
* 4.2 MB
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
