What Apps Are We Using This Month? with David Reid
Welcome to TheAppWhisperer’s section, “What apps are we using this month” series, where we discover which apps you are particularly enjoying. Kicking us off today is none other than notable Mobile Artist, David Reid.
I’m David Reid, @dmreidmd, and I live in Raleigh, NC, USA. I’ve been on Instagram for about twelve years, and in that time, I’ve gone from ‘not old’ to ‘almost old’, 75 now.
One of the few that I used Wombodream for. Also iColorama for tone and also crescent moon and stars’ ©David Reid
I retired four years ago after 44 years in the private practice of Child and Adult Psychiatry. I love playing with apps as well as doing straight-up photography, but I’m clearly better at the former. I have tried several apps but have settled into using just a relatively few for the past good while.
My main go-to app is definitely iColorama, it has so many cool functions, and I’m still learning more about them even now. The others I use a lot are distressedfx with its interesting atmospheres and, of course, birds; matter app, which is a lot of fun and, importantly, provides me with the red balls I can’t seem to do without; lorystripes which gives me balloons and aeroplanes and other fun lines; decim8, great for interesting and unexpected images; Flowpaper a little bit. I also use retouch, Snapseed, layout, image blender and Glitché as needed.
I have tried using AI just a little, Wombodream being the only one. I feel a little bad I haven’t done more, but it is a bit of a “ new trick” and, as I mentioned above, I am close to being an “old dog.” I also do everything on my iPhone and wonder about all the cool things folks do on their computers. Clearly, I spend too much time with all this, but it’s great fun and, as necessary, connects me with so many great friends and exceptional artists.
Thanks so much, Joanne, for allowing me to participate in this current program.
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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.
