What Apps Are We Using This Month? with Paul-André Hamel
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 Award Winning Mobile Artist, Paul-André Hamel.
I live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Retired from a local government, I really started working with an iPhone in 2016. Today, I use an Phone 13 Pro and an iPad Pro for editing. Like many others, I only use photos taken with my phone that I transform to create an atmosphere, awaken an emotion, or simply tell a story. And that’s what makes this job so exciting.
I use several applications but the most common are: SlowShutter for creating silhouettes and sometimes landscapes, SuperimposeX for integrating characters, iColorama, DistressedFX+ and Reflect for transforming landscapes, and TouchRetouch for the final touch up.
Here, the landscape was created with SlowShutter and transformed using iColorama and DistressedFX+. The character, photographed on the street with Slowshutter, was added in with SuperimposeX and touched up with TouchRetouch.
My characters are usually photographed either on the street or in a museum. Here, the man is looking at a painting at an exhibition. First, I created a landscape with Decim8 and reworked with Distressedfx+. Then, I integrated the silhouette into the landscape with SuperimposeX. I used Formulas to create a dreamlike blur. And finally, I reworked it with TouchRetouch.
The last picture was taken at an exhibition. I completely transformed the scene using iColorama. The red rectangle was integrated with SuperimposeX and some edits has been made with TouchRetouch.
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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.
