Top Five Photo Apps – Photo App Lounge – Yannick Brice
Welcome to our Photo App Lounge section of theappwhisperer.com. This is an area on our site where we ask highly accomplished mobile photographers what their top five photo apps are and why.
Kicking us off today is Yannick Brice, an outstanding mobile photographer and artist. We have also featured an example image for each app that he has highlighted and we have been totally astounded by his fabulously creative images.
We know you will enjoy this a lot…
Number One – Lo-Mob
©Yannick Brice – Lo-Mob: Filter INSTAnt-X Wide
I am a fan of Polaroid films, I use this application because it allows me to experiment with new techniques “development” of our original pics. It can be applied to aging pictures while applying a photo frame of a bygone age.
Our pictures look more real because they appear as a snapshot. In recent weeks, I discovered Superslides .The results of the colors are also very surprising.
Lo-Mob – $1.99/£1.49/download
Lo-Mob Superslide – $0.99/£0.69/download
Number Two – Decim8
©Yannick Brice – Decim8: Filter Beamrider
The Decim8 application is revolutionary because it can be used at any time in the process of creation. Her random mode makes it unique. Filters can be combined in infinite combinations that can be saved.
I usually used the precog1 filter to create an effect of vibration or resonance, Beamrider filter is also widely used today because it creates a dynamic speed on the pics. Lots of my “abstracts” compositions are produced by a superposition of the effects obtained by this application.
Number Three – PhotoRibbons
©Yannick Brice – PhotoRibbons – Effect of watercolour painting with an original image in pastel colours
PhotoRibbons is a hybrid photography and painting app for the iPhone. All parameters can be set, it has a manual mode and automatic mode. In manual mode, it allows you to work photos with our finger as painters used a knife to their oil painting.
In automatic mode, the result is stunning because our picture is transformed right before our eyes into a painting. Used with original image in pastel colors, it can create edits with the effect of watercolor painting.
Number Four – Image Blender
©Yannick Brice – Image Blender : superposition of 2 layers obtained by the Glassdager Filter of Decim8 and Filter of Glaze (abstract work realised for the challenge NEM imitate … here … David Capponi)
Image Blender is an application of superposition, it is limited to two images, it is very powerful and has a multitude of filters that help avoid the often tedious task of using the lasso to crop an object. It allows you to delete or blur the top layer.The backup is in high resolution.
I also use Layover (5 layers and the same filters) and also Superimpose, powerful but less intuitive.
Number Five – Bubble Harp
©Yannick Brice
This latter is a “musical” application. I found randomly from my research after discovering PhotoRibbons.
I use it in a roundabout way, I trace the contours of the objects with my finger that I have firstly decals on a tracing paper (I put the tracing layer on the iPhone or the ipad).
The edition becomes “musical” : the objects seem to radiate and I’m the only one to know that they also produce music before fixing them by a screenshot. This is an unconventional way to work with music.
Bubble Harp – $1.99/£1.49/download
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Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
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4 Comments
Laurence Zankowski
Joanne,
You really know how to tweak someone’s app addiction. Crazy you 😉
Be well
Laurence
Marc Simons
more TOP FIVE please! Love this section.
melia
very nice. had not heard of a couple of these. thanks
Tracy Mitchell Griggs
Groov-E