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A Day In The Life Of Thérèse Cherton – An Incredibly Talented And Versatile iPhone Artist

Welcome to our very exciting column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled ‘A day in the life of …’ and this is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography world. People that we think you will love to learn more about.

This is our seventy fourth installment of the series, if you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Thérèse lives in Brussels and studied graphic arts, typography and photo manipulation techniques in the darkroom and “photo engraving”. The arrival of the Mac as a primary tool for photogravure made​her convert her existing techniques and Photoshop. As this was not an easy job and she had a family and children, Thérèse decided to redirect her channels to a calmer workload and at present she works in the “job search” industry.

Around 2010 she discovered the iPhone and Hipstamatic. She was so delighted and amazed with all the tools in one small device and straight away she began to learn how to use the various applications and see the opportunities. She says, she is still learning and in total amazement at the technology.

Currently Thérèse is more active on Facebook and has begun to post images into various groups including WiiAM. Two of her images were selected for the “IPhoneography FIRST EXHIBITION – iPHONE PHOTO SHOW NAPLES ITALY”. In May 2012 Participation in “International Exhibition” in Porto. Several participations in projects of Giancarlo Beltrame, per example, The Divine Comedy of Dante and also on November 17 during the day against violence against women SVAW http://vimeo.com/53776928

Thérèse was also a co-organizer of the exhibition in Brussels, Biiam-Belgitude in September 2012 with Sean Hayes and Robert Buckley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hbp-sme0pY8

As English is not Thérèse’s first language and to help others, we have translated both our questions and her answers into French and English, we hope this is of value to you.

You can find all the links to the apps mentioned at the end of this article.

(If you would like to be interviewed for our new ‘A day in the life of …’ section, just send an email to [email protected], and we’ll get it set up.)

 

Translation

Formation en arts Graphique, à la typographie, aux techniques de la manipulation photo en chambre noire et photogravure.

J’ai travaillé 15 ans en photogravure traditionnelle où avec de simples techniques de caches et contre-caches nous faisions de véritables merveilles.

L’arrivée du Mac comme principal outil de photogravure m’a fait me reconvertir aux techniques actuelles et à Photoshop. Comme ce n’était pas un métier de tout repos et que j’avais des projets de famille et d’enfants, je me suis réorientée vers une fonction plus calme. Je m’occupe maintenant de la recherche d’emploi. Vers 2010 je découvre l’Iphone et Hipstamatic. Je suis directement conquise. Tous les outils dans un si petit appareil. J’investis donc. Commence alors l’apprentissage des diverses applications et des possibilités. Je suis et resterai en apprentissage et en total émerveillement devant cette technologie.

A cette époque je suis de plus en plus active sur Facebook et commence à déposer mes images dans différents groupes et notamment WiiAM.

Deux de mes images sont sélectionnées pour

«FIRST iPHONEOGRAPHY EXHIBITION – iPHONE PHOTO SHOW NAPLES ITALY»

Ensuite en Mai 2012, participation à “International Exhibition” à Porto.

Plusieurs participations aux projets de Giancarlo Beltrame

par exemple: La divine comédie de Dante et aussi le 17 Novembre lors de la journée contre la violence faites aux femmes S.V.A.W http://vimeo.com/53776928

Co Organisatrice de l’exposition Biiam : «Belgitude : La Fête aux EXCENTRICITÉS et aux icônes Belges» en septembre 2012 avec Sean Hayes et Robert Bucley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hbp-sme0pY8

Comme l’anglais n’est pas la langue maternelle de Thérèse et d’aider les autres, nous avons traduit nos deux questions et ses réponses en français et en anglais, nous espérons que ce sera utile.

Vous pouvez trouver tous les liens vers les applications mentionnées à la fin de cet article.

(Si vous souhaitez être interviewé pour notre nouveau «Une journée dans la vie de …» section, il suffit d’envoyer un courriel à [email protected], et nous allons le faire installer.)

 

Thérèse Cherton

iPhone

©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Autoportrait craquelé’ – Lens Light, Alien Sky, Colormania, RetroGram

 

Flickr& IPA: IphOneOgrAphYThereseCherton

EyeEm: IphOneOgrAphYtc

First Things First

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Applause’ – Snapseed

 

Joanne – Let’s start at the beginning of the day, how does your day start?
Commençons par le début de la journée, comment commencer votre journée?

Thérèse – After a good breakfast, departure to the office. I still have my iPhone in my pocket and if the light is good I take pictures or i work with those than I judge unfinished. I take the public transportation which leaves me time to work.

Après un bon petit déjeuner, départ vers le bureau. J’ai toujours mon iphone en poche et suivant la lumière je prends des photos ou je travaille celles que j’ai toujours en mémoire et que je juge inachevées. Je prends les transports en commun ce qui me laisse le temps pour travailler.

 

Golden Hour

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Carrousel Grunge’ – Colormania, Paint FX, PhotoTexture

 

Joanne – Do you like to head out and take photographs early on?
Aimez-vous diriger et prendre des photos dès le début?

Thérèse – It depends on the images I have in stock. If I think they are all finished or if I have new projects so I’m going to hunt the image.

Ca dépend des images que j’ai en stock. Si je pense qu’elles sont toutes terminées, je fais de nouveaux projets alors je pars à la chasse à l’image.

 

Photographer vs Mobile Photographer/Photographe Photographe vs mobile

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Carrousel Rouge’ – AfterFocus, Snapseed

 

Joanne – How did the transition from traditional photographer to mobile photographer develop? (pardon the pun).
Comment le passage du photographe traditionnel au photographe mobile se développer? (pardonnez le calembour).

Thérèse – I’ve never really been a photographer, I was reprographe. During my studies in graphic arts I learned all photographic processes of the shooting, development and enlargement, but what interested me was the “reprographing”. Work on the “bancs de reproduction”, large bellows camera, scanner images to remove the 4 films database for print. The handling films with caches and caches contraindications to make arrangements. Early in my career I had the opportunity to learn a trade forgotten today. This was before the photo manipulation with Photoshop. I remember, for a magazine cover I rejuvenated the announcer at least 10 years and without a computer. Just hiding parts and exposing others.

Je n’ai jamais réellement été photographe, j’ai été photograveur. Durant mes études en arts graphique, j’ai appris tout les processus photographiques de la prise de vue, développement et agrandissement, mais ce qui m’intéressait c’était la “reprographie”. Travailler sur les bancs de reproduction, sorte de grand appareil photo à soufflet, scanner les images pour en retirer les 4 films de base pour imprimer. Manipuler les films avec des caches et contres-caches pour en faire des montages. Au début de ma carrière professionnelle, j’ai eu la chance d’apprendre un métier oublié aujourd’hui. C’était de la manipulation photo avant Photoshop. Je me souviens avoir, pour une couverture de magazine, rajeunit la speakerine d’au moins 10 ans et cela sans ordinateur. Juste en cachant certaines parties et en en exposant d’autres.

 

New Apps//applications nouvelles

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Cloning – formating’ – Decim8, ModernGrunge

 

Joanne – Do you like to download new apps regularly?
Aimez-vous télécharger de nouvelles applications régulièrement?

Thérèse – Yes it is a constant search. To have the tools to get the results expected. And as imagination is constantly changing, it is a perpetual quest.

Oui, c’est une recherche permanente. Pouvoir avoir les outils qui permettent d’arriver au résultat imaginé. Et comme l’imagination est en permanente évolution, c’est une quête perpétuelle.

 

Updates/Mises à jour

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Danse Macabre’ – Superimpose, CPPro, PhotoTreats, HorrowCam

 

Joanne – How often do you update your existing apps?
Combien de fois avez-vous mettre à jour vos applications existantes?

Thérèse – Oh that’s a good question, I don’t never counted. When they notified me in the App Store, I do the update.

Oh, quelle bonne question, je ne les jamais comptée. Quand elles me sont notifiées dans l’AppStore, je fais la mise à jour.

 

Location, Location, Location/Emplacement, emplacement, emplacement

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Exposition’ – SlowShutter, Dynamic Light, Snapseed

 

Joanne – Where’s your favorite place in the world for a shoot?
Quel est votre endroit préféré dans le monde pour un tournage?

Thérèse – The street, the countryside, public transport everywhere, all the time. In the morning I take the shopping street for go to the office, I love the mannequins. They faces impassive, emotionless. Carnivals, carousels, the great wheel also fascinate me.

La rue, la campagne, les transports en commun partout, tout le temps. Le matin je prends la rue commerçante pour aller au bureau, j’aime beaucoup les mannequins. Ils ont des visages impassibles, sans émotions.

Les fêtes foraines, les carrousels, la grande-roue aussi me fascinent.

Tools Of The Trade/Les outils du métier

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Femme à la Voilette : Colormania, PhotoTexture, RetroGram

 

Joanne – Do you also use iPhone photography tool apps, such as The Photographer’s Ephemeris and if so do you use it to plan your shoots?
Avez-vous également utiliser l’outil iPhone apps photographie, tels que les éphémérides du photographe et si oui avez-vous l’utiliser pour planifier vos séances?

 

Thérèse – No, as I’ve already said, I am not a photographer. The iPhone allows me to find my first job and it is always then available in my pocket. I have an become “image maker”.

Non, comme je vous l’ai déjà dis, je ne suis pas photographe. L’iphoneographie me permet de retrouver mon métier premier et tout cela disponible tout le temps et dans la poche. Je redeviens «faiseuse d’images»

Favorite Apps/Applications favoris

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Jump’ – SlowShutter, DynamicLight, Snapseed

 

Joanne – What are your favorite, at the moment, iPhoneography apps?
Quels sont vos favoris, à l’heure actuelle, les applications iPhoneography?

Thérèse – ColorMania, TapFX, Paint Fx, Movie FX, SP Photo Tada, Phototoaster, Glaze, Decim8, AfterFocus, SuperPhoto, Snapseed. And the first application that I have used and that led me to iphoneography: hipstamatic.

ColorMania, TapFX, Paint Fx, Cinéma FX, SP photo Tada, Phototoaster, Glaze, Decim8, AfterFocus, SuperPhoto, Snapseed. Et la première application que j’ai utilisé et qui m’a amené à l’iphoneographie : hipstamatic.

 

Sharing/partage

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘La mort aux Papillions’ – TapFX, Superimpose, Paint FX, PhotoTexture, WowFX, Distressed FX

 

Joanne – Where do you like to upload your photographs? Flickr, Instagram?
Où aimez-vous de télécharger vos photos? Flickr, Instagram?

Thérèse – Pixels, EyeEm, IPA, Flickr and Facebook, Before I used Instagram but with the new policy of using pictures, I withdrew all of my images. Not because I think they are so great, but because the grip of a large financial group does not please me.

 

Pixels, ,EyeEm, IPA, Flickr et Facebook, Avant j’utilisais Instagram mais avec la nouvelle politique d’utilisation des images j’ai retiré presque toutes mes images. Pas parce que je crois qu’elles sont tellement géniales, mais parce que cette main mise d’un grand groupe financier ne me plait pas.

 

Frequency/fréquence

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘le Danseur’ – SlowShutter, DynamicLight, Snapseed

 

Joanne – Do you take photographs with your iPhone everyday?
Ne vous prenez des photos avec votre iPhone tous les jours?

Thérèse – Yes every day. It is so easy to capture those little moments that make a day.

Oui tous les jours. C’est tellement simple d’immortaliser ces petits moments qui font une journée.

 

Favorite Subjects/Sujets favoris

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘The Guards’ – Mirrorgram, Colormania, PhotoTexture, RetroGram

Joanne – What are your favorite subjects to photograph?
Quels sont vos sujets de prédilection pour photographier?

Thérèse – I don’t have a particular subject but as said above, I love the mannequins and carousels.

Je n’en ai pas spécialement mais comme dit plus haut, j’aime beaucoup les mannequins, les carrousels .

 

Teaching/enseignement

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Les Ombres du petit matin’ – AfterFocus, Huge Photos

 

Joanne – How did the teaching side come along?
Comment le côté enseignement venir avec moi?

Thérèse – No I don’t teach. From time to time I offer advice to one or the other but it stops there.

Non je n’enseigne pas . De temps en temps des conseils à l’un ou l’autre mais ça s’arrête là.

 

Top Five Tips/Cinq conseils

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Masque’ – PictureShow, Decim8

 

Joanne – What are your top five tips for iPhone photography?
Quels sont vos cinq conseils pour la photographie iPhone?

Thérèse – I have no advice to give. Everybody have separate ways. Try to find one that suits you. Mine is not finished and will not be until I’m very, very old and my eyes are defective.

Je n’ai pas de conseils à donner. Chacun son chemin. Essayez de trouver celui qui vous convient. Le mien n’est pas fini et ne le sera que quand je serai très, très vieille et que mes yeux me feront défauts.

Editing/rédaction

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Musical Ride’ – SlowShutter, AutoStitch, Dynamic Light, Snapseed

 

Joanne – Do you edit images on your iPhone or do you prefer to do that on a desktop/laptop?
Avez-vous d’éditer les images sur votre iPhone ou préférez-vous le faire sur un ordinateur de bureau / ordinateur portable?

Thérèse – I do both. But I prefer to view my pictures on my MacBook before loading.
Je faire les deux. Mais je préfère regarder mes photos sur mon MacBook avant le chargement.

Videography/vidéographie

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘On the road’ – SlowShutter, DynamicLight, Snapseed

 

Joanne – Do you enjoy videography with your iPhone?
Aimez-vous la vidéographie avec votre iPhone?

Thérèse – I do not do videography.

Je ne fais pas la videography.

 

The Future Of Mobile Photography/L’avenir de la photographie mobile

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Reflection on the road’ – Snapseed

 

Joanne – Where do you see the future of iPhone photography?
Où voyez-vous l’avenir de la photographie iPhone?

Thérèse – There are so many talented people, they open unexplored paths using applications with images.

Il y a tellement de gens pleins de talents, ils ouvrent des voies inexplorées. Tant au niveau des applications que des images.

 

Popularity/popularité

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Rêverie : Colormania, PhotoTexture, WowFX, Distressed FX

 

Joanne – What do you think is the most popular area of iPhoneography?
Que pensez-vous est le quartier le plus populaire de iPhoneography?

Thérèse – I don’t know what is the most popular. It is depends of your culture. I really like the pictures a little dark, but I do not think they are popular.

Je ne sais pas ce qui est le plus populaire. Ca dépend des cultures. Moi j’aime beaucoup les images un peu sombres, mais je ne pense pas qu’elles soient populaires.

 

Worldwide Phenomena?/Phénomènes à travers le monde?

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Robe Rouge : SlowShutter, DynamicLight, Snapseed

 

Joanne – Do you think it’s country specific, are some nations more clued up?
Pensez-vous que c’est spécifique au pays, quelques nations plus clued?

Thérèse – No, the iPone is present in many countries. And there are talented people everywhere.

Non, l’iphone est présent dans beaucoup de pays. Et il y a des gens de talents partout dans le monde.

 

Hardware/matériel

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Shadows Under Windows’ – SlowShutter, CPPro, PhotoTreats

 

Joanne – What do you hope for in newer versions of the iPhone?
Qu’espérez-vous pour les dernières versions de l’iPhone?

Thérèse – I do not have the iPhone 5. The 4S suits me perfectly.

Je n’ai pas d’iphone 5. Le 4S me convient parfaitement.

 

TheAppWhisperer.com

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘Upstairs’ SlowShutter, ScratchCam, Snapseed

 

Joanne – What do you think of Joanne and theappwhisperer.com?
Que pensez-vous de Joanne et theappwhisperer.com?

Thérèse – I love the advice she gives. She makes me work hard with my English. 😉

J’aime beaucoup les conseils qu’elle donne. Elle me fait travailler l’anglais. 😉

Links To All Apps Used And Mentioned In This Interview/Liens à toutes les applications utilisées et mentionnées dans cette interview

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©Thérèse Cherton – ‘We Are not Alone’ – SlowShutter, Dynamic Light, Snapseed

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