What Apps Are We Using This Month? with Ilise Harris
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Welcome to TheAppWhisperer’s new section, “what apps are we using this month” series, where we discover which apps you are particularly enjoying. Kicking us off today is non-other than notable Mobile Artist, Ilise Harris.
Hello, I am Ilise Harris and I live in Dobbs Ferry, which is suburban N.Y. I am 65 years old and am a freelance makeup and hair artist.
I am currently making a documentary film about the trend of women growing out the dye and letting their silver hair show. I feel it is an important cultural shift. This is of note because I am shooting much of this myself on my iPhone 14 pro. I never would have embarked on this project without my experiences in the mobile photography movement.
After my initial introduction to compositing in a workshop with Karen Divine, I learned that I can indeed learn new technical things, and not to be limited by the typical way of looking at things. I learned to follow some internal lead and to sit with the layers of things; to see what floats and what sinks, and what is revealed through play.
At times I go for a “show me” walk to clear my head and see what presents, and oh, the flowers! A patch of tulips encouraged me to create a little formula. I started with the beloved Hipstamatic App and did double exposures; one exposure was straight up, the other utilizing the wide angle option. I then ran them through Snapseed for a bit of clean up and amplification of certain aspects. I liked the results so much that I took a trip to the NY Botanical gardens to see the orchid show, and then used the same formula on a recent trip to Stockholm where I found a lemon tree at a museum still wrapped in protective white fabric. Everything was processed on the phone.
Hipstamic and Snapseed are my most used apps. I was a wizard with Leonardo, and was so crushed when that was discontinued that I had a hard time adjusting to SuperimposeX but I do use it when I’m wanting a deeper, layered composite. For little videos I like CapCut. I haven’t been deeply involved in mobile work lately aside from the film project but was quite tickled when the tulip series was spotted by a small gallerist. We made small squares behind acrylic glass by Whitewall, so fingers crossed!
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