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.
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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 photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
2 Comments
Carlos
Thanks Lola!
Alan Julliard
Thanks for including “Cloud fishing”, Lola!