Feature Shoot – 2014 Emerging Photography Awards
The Feature Shoot 2014 Emerging Photography Awards is a new international photography competition for emerging photographers who are ready to kickstart their careers. We know it can be difficult to market your work, design a website, fund new projects, and network with the right people on top of it all, so we hope to take that off your plate! Three talented photographers will be provided with the resources they need to get their career off to a strong start. They’re looking for up to five documentary, portrait, or fine art images displaying a strong narrative from a single series. We can’t wait to see your best work. FREE to apply! Application…
PhotoPhilanthropy – #WorldFightsAIDS Photo Contest
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) and PhotoPhilanthropy are excited to announce the World Fights AIDS Photo Contest on Instagram. They are seeking photos from across the globe that resonate with the mission of EGPAF, the global leader in the fight to end AIDS. The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation isn’t only fighting AIDS, they are changing the way the world fights AIDS. They work hand-in-hand with governments, partners, mothers, families, volunteers and donors toward a health and social infrastructure that can end HIV/AIDS – and keep it eliminated. Your assignment: Every community across the world has at least one unsung hero or grassroots organization working to eradicate this…
Olloclip App – Updated
Do you use an Olloclip lens for your mobile photography? If not, we recommend that you try it. The 4-in-1 lens for example consists of a fisheye capturing approximately a 180° field of view, there’s a wide angle lens, a 10x macro and a 15x macro. As well as the actual lens there is an Olloclip app and it has recently been updated. It’s a major update with iPad support, photo stabilization, picture-in-picture feature for macro mode, video cropping, low light boost on iPhone 5 and a lot more besides. We have listed all the new features below. This is a free app, click here to download Click here to…
‘Impossible’ Interview with Manoj Jadhav
We’re delighted to be working closer with The Impossible Project team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and…
Instagram – Overcoming Shyness with Margot Breby
Parisian Instagrammer Margot Breby (@margotbreby) has emerged from her shell, ‘I am very shy and fashion is a good way to express myself, growing up I wanted to become a stylist and I drew outfits I dreamed of wearing’ she said Margot’s serene, light-soaked Instagram photos have also helped with her shyness. “It brought wonderful people into my life,” she says. “People who became true friends. I never imagined that when I began a year ago.” Margot’s inspiration comes from eclectic sources, many of whom share her whimsical outlook. “I really love Sofia Coppola’s and Wes Anderson’s movies and Tim Walker’s photography,” she says. “I am also very inspired by…
iOS Photography App – LensLight – Major Update
LensLight is a popular app for iOS Photography for adding lighting effects to your images and it has just been updated with a Masking facility – a welcome feature. Two more Flare effects have also been incorporated. There’s also the ability to print directly from the app with Pixuru to create metal, canvas or poster prints. This is a free update, if you have already purchased LensLight, if not, you can download it here. It retails for $1.99/£1.49/download.
Hipstamatic’s Cinamatic App – Temporarily Free
Cinamatic is a fabulous app and one that we featured recently for our wonderful competition – if you missed that, please go here. Today, Cinamatic is completely free, down from $0.99/£0.69. It has also just been updated too with an updated clips view and various bug fixes and stability improvements. If you haven’t picked up Cinamatic yet, then we strongly suggest that you do. Click here to download.
iStopMotion for iPad – Temporary Price Drop
iStopMotion for iPad allows you to act as a filmmaker, directing your own animated film, it’s hugely comprehensive and was a Winner in the Macworld Best of Show for 2013. This is a quality app, that’s ultra slick and simple to use. Usually iStopMotion for iPad retails for $9.99/$6.99 but today you can pick it up for only $4.99/£2.99. Click here to download.
iOS Photography App – Paper Camera – Temporarily Free
Paper Camera offers real time cartoon and painting effects to your images and videos. It’s an interesting app and is simple to use. Today it is free to download (there are in app purchases). Usually Paper Camera retails for $0.99/£0.69 – click here to download for free today.
MIRA Mobile Prize – Shortlist Announced!
The MIRA Mobile Photography Competition has now reached the shortlist stage and we are pleased to detail the fifty images chosen and all of these will be exhibited at the MIRA Forum in Portugal on 6 September 2014. One overall winner will be selected from all of these entries. With many congratulations to Adelino Marques, Adria Ellis, Aldo Pacheco, Andrew Lucceshi, Antonio Goncalves, Arjan, Barbara DuBois, Cindy Buske, Connie Rosenthal, Dani Salvadori, David De Franceschi, Fiona Christian, Florence Oliver, Giancarlo Beltrame, Hans Borgorst, Helen Breznik, Jan Bijker, Janine Graf, Jay Desind, Jessika Johanansson, Jose Peres Moldes, Lee Atwell, Luisa Sequira, Mahfuzul Hasan, Marian Rubin, Mattia Vacca, Mel Harrison, Melle Amodali,…
