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Mobile Photography – Tip Of The Day – Number 31

Welcome to another brand new section from your favourite mobile photography website and one of the most popular in the world. Today, we’re publishing our 31st Mobile Photography/Art Tip Of The Day to our brand new section of the site.

Every day we will publish a short quick tip to help you with your mobile photography, this may be related to editing your image, capturing your image, printing your image, all manner of things, across the complete photographic and art mobile genre – we’ll be featuring great mobile street photography tips, great blending tips, great cloning tips, we will cover it all from some of the greatest mobile photographers and artists in the world.

We’ll also have a widget in our right hand column, displaying the Tip of The Day every day, just click on that and you will be taken to our tip of  the Day archive.

We are delighted to publish our 31st Tip Of the Day today, this time by Jennifer Sharpe. Jennifer is a key contributor to our Flickr groups and specifically our Streets Ahead Flickr Group and we have featured her work many times. We have also published a previous Top Five Photo Apps article with Jennifer too, if you missed that – please go here. We are sure you’ll be delighted to read this wonderful tip today, over to you Jennifer …(foreword by Joanne Carter).

 

Playing With Distortion While Shooting – Making Non-Macro Photos With a Macro Lens

“There are obviously many ways you can distort photos in post-processing. However, one of my favorite things is achieve this distortion while shooting, so I don’t have to do anything more to what results.

One of the ways I’ve been playing with distortion is to use my Olloclip macro lens to shoot things far away instead of close-up, which is the original purpose for which a macro lens was designed. I’ve been experimenting now and then with night shots, but for this piece, I shot during the day to see what that looks like too. My process so far is to pick an app with great filters which you can shoot through right off the bat, with the Olloclip macro attached. What you get is a photo that you don’t need to edit at all (unless you want to). Happy experimenting!”

Here are some results, night and day:

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Olloclip macro lens + Hipstamatic Classic (night) – tv screen – Image © Jennifer Sharpe

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Olloclip macro lens + Hipstamatic Classic (night) – candles – Image © Jennifer Sharpe

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Olloclip macro lens with Oggl (day) – corner of the room w/objects in front of the windows – Image © Jennifer Sharpe

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Olloclip macro lens with KitCam (day) – my daughter on a red rug and in front of a few windows – Image © Jennifer Sharpe

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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