iOS Photography App – iColorama S – Temporarily Free
Yesterday we reported that the uber popular iColorama S app for your iPhone had been reduced in price, well today, it’s got even better – it’s temporarily free. It’s a great time to pick up this app, there’s a new update coming soon too. Click here to download.
Tickle Your Fancy #40
Welcome back to our fortieth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. Fatherhood and Folklore: Behind Scott Alario’s Photographic…
iOS Photography App – HarrisCamera – Temporary Price Drop
HarrisCamera allows you to recreate the Harris shutter effect to your digital images. To give you a bit of background, the Harris Shutter effect was created by Robert Harris of Kodak. The effect was originally created by re-exposing the same piece of film 3 times through 3 different colored filters while keeping the camera steady. The three colors used were red, blue and green (the colors of the spectrum) and in the areas where no movement takes place, those 3 colors combine to reproduce the original color. With the advent of HarrisCamera for iOS photography the whole thing can be done very simply. Why not give it a try this…
iOS Photography App – Perfectly Clear – Photo Correction (Automatic) – Temporarily Reduced
Perfectly Clear – Photo Correction (Automatic) is available for only $0.99/£0.69 this weekend, down from $2.99/£1.99. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to pick up one of the best photo editing and capturing apps in the business. Click here to download.
iOS Photography/Art App – iColorama S – Price Reduced Today
iColorama S is a hugely popular app for your iPhone, there’s also an iPad version – iColorama, minus the S. This is a fabulous app to help you enhance your images and produces excellent results. iColorama usually retails for $2.99/£1.99 but today you can pick it up for only $1.99/£1.49. Click here to download.
Samsung Galaxy S5 overview: Joint leader in DxOMark Mobile rankings – Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter our Head of Technical Hardware as well as the Lead Technical Editor for DxOMark and the British Journal of Photography among others, recently tested Samsung’s Galaxy S5 smartphone. DPReview use Kevin’s scientific data in their reviews, as they quote Kevin here, “The DxOMark team reports that the Galaxy S5 images show “good auto-exposure, pleasant, rich and realistic colors, good white balance, low noise levels in low light conditions and good sharpness and details in the center of the frame. ” The testers found “almost no color fringing or ringing” and liked the “good image quality with flash.” On the downside there is “a noticeable loss of detail in…
iOS Photography – JixiPix App Giveaway
JixiPix are wonderful developers and publishers of many successful iOS Photography apps, including Dramatic Black & White, Portrait Painter, PhotoArtistaHD, Grungetastic and more. They have an offer on their special Facebook page where you win an app by liking their page and supplying your name and email address. Take a look here – closing date is 30 June 2014.
SAMSUNG AND MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE GLOBAL BRAND PARTNERSHIP
Samsung Electronics and Marvel Entertainment today announced a new global partnership. Through a multi-medium creative campaign across film, digital and product, Marvel and Samsung will integrate their brands in unique and creative ways to bring their collective audiences together and showcase the best from both brands. The partnership will merge the worlds of both brands, highlighting Samsung’s technology and Marvel’s visual storytelling to offer unrivalled access to exclusive content and experiences. “Samsung is passionate about the stories around our products and the people that use them,” said Younghee Lee, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing, Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics. “Partnering with Marvel gives us the opportunity to bring…
Samsung Announces Galaxy Tab S
Samsung Electronics has today announced the Galaxy Tab S, Samsung’s thinnest and lightest tablet to date. This Super AMOLED tablet combines the most advanced display technology with a full range of premium content for an unrivalled entertainment experience. The Galaxy Tab S is also powered with enhanced productivity features for effortless multitasking, all elegantly housed in a stylish, yet practical design. “The tablet is becoming a popular personal viewing device for enjoying content, which makes the quality of the display a critical feature,” said JK Shin, CEO and President of IT & Mobile Division, Samsung Electronics. “With the launch of the Galaxy Tab S, Samsung is setting the industry…
Alternative Processes – The Center for Fine Art Photography – Call For Entries Competition
As our regular readers will know, we have been looking at alternative post processing of mobile images for sometime. We have a Flickr group dedicated to this and we will be publishing tutorials and additional information soon to help you make hard copies of your mobile images using alternative processes. We have published several articles already to our new section, see here. We have today discovered a wonderful new competition from The Center for Fine Art Photography. The entry date for this competition is July 2, 2014 and it will run until July 15, 2014. All subject matter and alternative processes are welcome, including Daguerreotypes, Cyanotypes, Chrysotypes, Chlorophyll Process, Chemigrams,…
