Tickle Your Fancy – #31 – Dedicated To All Women
Welcome back to our thirty first post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of 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. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections, we have dedicated…
iOS Photography App – PhotoToaster – Updated
PhotoToaster is a great app for post editing as well as image capture. It’s packed with great preset features and has just been updated with additional imaging enhancements, these include: • the album picker has been replaced with a custom photo picker that has a larger thumbnail size and allows for zooming in on photos before using them • tint is now shadow and highlight tint to allow for split toning • sharpen is now detail and can sharpen or soften depending on direction ( the algorithm has been improved to provide a better result particularly with larger values) • the blur vignette has been separated from the brightness vignette so…
iOS Photography App – PhotoMotion – Temporarily Free Today
PhotoMotion is becoming very popular, essentially it turns your photographs into immersive video with motion, titles and music. There’s even a popular Facebook group for it – see here. Uusally PhotoMotion retails for $0.99/£0.69 but today it’s free, click here to download.
‘Impossible’ Interview with Meghan Davidson
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…
Getty Images Offering $130,000 Grants to Editorial & Portrait Photographers
We have mentioned this previously, see here, but just as a reminder, photographers have until 15 May to submit their work for a chance to win one of this year’s Getty Images Grants. This year, as it celebrates the programme’s 10-year anniversary, Getty Images will be offering six Editorial photography prizes, three Creative Grants for non-profit organisations and photographers, and one Portrait award – totalling $130,000 in cash prizes. In the Grants for Editorial Photography category, Getty Images will present five $10,000 prizes, which will be awarded to photojournalists pursuing personal projects of journalistic significance. An additional grant, offered in partnership with the Lean In foundation, will be “awarded to…
Creative Grants & Residencies – ‘DIY Residencies’
As you know one of our new and key areas here within theappwhisperer.com is to bring you news of creative grants and residencies that we feel with help you progress with your wonderful art. The Guardian reports on DIY residencies – ‘a career in the arts on your own terms’. This article talks about 24 hour plays to co-op leasing and explains that US artists are ditching traditional residencies in favour of working on their own terms. It’s a very interesting read for all, please go here to read more.
Competition – CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year
Free to enter, the CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition challenges you to change our perceptions of day to day life in the urban environment through their brief: ‘Cities at Work’. The winner will receive a luxury photo-safari trip from a choice of destinations around the globe. The Urban Photographer of the Year will be the person who, in the eyes of the judges, has best captured the brief to portray the life of a town or city at a given time of day. Whilst the photograph does not necessarily have to be taken at that specific time of day, it does need to look as though it was.…
iOS App – Phonto – Text on Image – Updated
Phonto is a very popular app for watermarking or just adding text to your images. It has just been updated with the addition of two new fonts (Quirky Nots and A Dripping Marker). There’s also a new Gaussian Blur filter and Plain Image and Image Theme templates too. This is a free update to a free app, click here to download/update.
iOS Photography App – ProCamera 7 – Updated
ProCamera 7 is a very popular image capture and editing app for iOS photography and videography. It has just been updated with as the developers describe ‘one of our most feature packed updates to date’. The updates include new TIFF file saving, Open-in functionality, high res Instagram support and Shadows and Highlights correction tools. You can read more about the updates below. This is a free update if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $4.99/£2.99. New Updates With the new TIFF file format you can now save and edit maximum quality, truly lossless photographs in ProCamera. There are two…
Portrait of an Artist – Photos of Children and Their Toys – Part 2
Wonderful series of portraiture of children with their toys, from all around the world. Stunning series. See the complete article here
