The App Nerds Workshop – Spontaneity – By Lola Mitchell
We’re delighted to publish Lola Mitchell’s latest article to her App Nerds Workshop column with us. In case you’re new to this wonderful column we wanted to give you a little background. Lola’s bi-weekly Column is called ‘The App Nerds Workshop‘. It is a virtual classroom, an environment for new talent to share their work, for Lola to share some of the ways she uses apps and for the not so new talent to share some secrets. Lola sometimes assigns broad themes to keep the creative juices flowing. Your minds will be tickled into creating, experimenting, daring, dreaming, making and doing.
We have a dedicated Flickr group where you can submit your images for consideration, please follow the link to that, here.
This time Lola takes us through her process using a small selection of iOS Photography apps to create the most amazing self portrait and one actually that we published in our Flickr Group Showcase this week.
Over to you Lola (foreword by Joanne Carter).
It has been a while. I have spent most of my summer using my big DSLR and photoshop with Procreate, and Glaze.
I missed my iPhone and specially that freedom, that complete go with the flow creativity.
After being stuck at home, first because my kids were sick and then because I caught the virus they had….
I was almost in pain from not shooting any photos. It keeps me sane.
So today in complete rebellion I wanted to play around with Long expo app. I started taking a few self portraits. The light was nice and I took one Hipstamatic shot I liked.
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This is after two steps in Snapseed where I added brightness to my face.
In ArtRage I smooched my hair. I used Glaze on the leaves on the top and blended on Image Blender.
In Mextures I used the painterly grunge texture. Then realized that ArtRage had saved at 960X960, went onto Iresize.
Here is the result.
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ahhhhhhh I feel much much better. I had a hard time going back to spontaneity when I have been over-planning for shoots.
Lots of great pics in the Flickr Group. Here are a few of my favorites.
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)
2 Comments
Carlos
Thanks Lola!
Alan Julliard
Thanks for including “Cloud fishing”, Lola!