APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – Winner Announced – 8 July 2015
Huge congratulations to our APPart Color of the Day with Pantone Daily Challenge winner. The Color of the Day was Persian Jewel (17-3934) with the adjectives and nouns, ‘Intelligent, Seductive and Sensitive’. We feel that @illseharris has captured the essence of these with this wonderful image, please check out her Instagram account, it’s fabulous. Today’s Pantone color of the day is ‘Lilac Marble’ (14-3903) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Willful, Powerful and Cautious’. So, we would like to see your creations using this colour in combination with those words, if possible. It’s a challenge after all! To take part in this challenge, please create an image and post it to Instagram…
Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (143) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day one hundred and forty three of our new mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate the @_brooklyndragonfli_ – with this image ‘s y n e r g y’. Please check out her Instagram feed here for more stunning imagery.
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Lilac Marble’ – TheAppWhisperer
Many of you have already seen our new segment to our APPart column here at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Bobbi McMurry. We would like to inspire all mobile artists to create one image a day using the selected colour of Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ – see here (we will announce the colour each day). As well a ‘Color of the Day’, Pantone also link that colour with adjectives and/or nouns. For your information Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ was originally created by renowned astrologer Michele Bernhardt – you can read more about her here. Today’s Pantone color of the day is ‘Lilac Marble’ (14-3903) and the accompanying descriptives are…
Photography Competition – Win The New Leica M Monochrom with Lens
Black & White Photography magazine is a platform for contemporary monochrome photography, celebrating the best in image making from around the world. Quality is the keystone of the magazine with excellent journalism and superb photography covering reportage, portraiture, landscape and every genre in between. They have a wonderful competition in association with Leica. Submit three pictures which are linked by style and theme and you could be the winner of the fabulous new Leica M Monochrom worth $7,450/£5,750, plus a beautiful Leica 50mm lens worth $2,068/£1,200. You can also enter the single image categories. The first prize in each category is £200 cash and a £100 voucher from theprintspace. Winning…
Mobile Photography/Art – Apple Default/Native Camera Most Used For Initial Image Capture
Through our APPart Column, edited by Bobbi McMurry, we raised the question ‘do you use the default/native camera in your iPhone or a dedicated photo app to capture your initial images?’. It proved a popular question and our editor for this section Bobbi McMurry has created a pie chart clearly demonstrating the Apple default camera as being the most popular choice with 31%. This was followed by 14% Other* (see below), Hipstamatic with 13%, with Camera+ and ProCamera at 12%, 645 PRO Mk III and Oggl both achieved 6% and Slow Shutter and Provoke with 3%. Please take a look at the chart below…and please let us know your thoughts,…
Inspiring Photographic TED Talk with Photographer – Lisa Kristine
I have created a special section within TheAppWhisperer to publish inspirational photographic related TED talks to. The first that I published last week was with Uldus Bakhtiozina, a fabulous photographer and one that I interviewed recently for Vogue. If you missed that, you can view it here. Today, I am publishing another inspiring TED talk to rouse us all. This one stars Lisa Kristine. For the past two years, photographer Lisa Kristine has traveled the world, documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images — miners in the Congo, brick layers in Nepal — illuminating the plight of the 27 million souls enslaved worldwide. Please…
Take Action Now – Save the Freedom of Photography – Petition
The Freedom of taking photos in public places is under attack. Until now, in most countries in Europe you were safe to take and publish photographs that are taken from public ground – This is called Freedom of Panorama. But not all, if you take a night time shot of the Eiffel Tower for example, according to French law, your rights to use them are limited. The illumination of the Eiffel Tower is considered to be a separate artistic installation. Because France does not have full freedom of panorama; copyright restrictions make it illegal to publish these pictures without proper authorisation. The Guardian reports “Freedom of panorama is the unrestricted…
Instagram Increases Image Resolution
Instagram’s image resolution has been stuck on 640 x 640 for a long time but following the recent upgrade to the app, Instagram has now started storing higher resolution images – 1080 x 1080 on its servers. This update is welcome but not particularly revolutionary. Flickr and Google photos offer the better solution for artists wanting to store images at high resolution online. Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram, announced via Twitter, yesterday the roll-out to both iOS and Android versions of the app. (Many thanks to Ile Mont, for the tip).
Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (142) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day one hundred and forty two of our new mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate the @marietteschrijver – Mariette Schrijver – with this image ‘Headache’. Please check out her Instagram feed here for more stunning imagery.
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Persian Jewel’ – TheAppWhisperer
Many of you have already seen our new segment to our APPart column here at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Bobbi McMurry. We would like to inspire all mobile artists to create one image a day using the selected colour of Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ – see here (we will announce the colour each day). As well a ‘Color of the Day’, Pantone also link that colour with adjectives and/or nouns. For your information Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ was originally created by renowned astrologer Michele Bernhardt – you can read more about her here. Today’s Pantone color of the day is ‘Persian Jewel’ (17-3934) and the accompanying descriptives are…
