Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – March 9, 2014
We have just published this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase and it’s one that is full of elegance, grace, style and emotion. We start with a fabulous image from Lorenka61 entitled ‘Broken Dreams’ and this sets the scene as we take you through some incredibly powerful portraiture. It then leads us deeper into some outstanding street photography, through to beautiful architecture and into some spectacular landscapes and seascapes. We then explore some fabulous still life images and end on a very spiritual note. We really hope you enjoy this journey today, it is a true pleasure to bring this to our readers every week. It embodies all that we strive for…
Tickle Your Fancy – #28
Welcome back to our twenty eighth 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… Should Photography…
‘Impossible’ Interview with Julien Grenet – ‘Des Polas et des Mains’
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…
New Kyoto HipstaPak from Hipstamatic
Ohhh you may or may not have been expecting this but there’s a brand new HipstaPak from Hipstamatic – the Kyoto pak. The colours are intensive with this pak and give a very unique look. Take a look at the pack shots below. The new Kyoto HipstaPak is available now in the Hipstamatic store. It retaills for $0.99/£0.69. You need to purchase Hipstamatic first, if you haven’t you can pick it up here. It retails for $1.99/£1.49/download.
Impossible Project – ‘Eye of the Beholder’ Winners Announced
Each month the Impossible Project host a competition, the theme last month theme was ‘eye of the beholder’ and the winners have just been annouced. We’re delighted to see Ale Di Gangi among them as well as Wilfried Haillot and Raul Diaz. Many congratulations to all.
iOS Photography App – Laminar Pro – Image Editor – Temporary Price Drop
Hugely popular Laminar Pro – Image Editor is available for less today. Usually it retails for $4.99/£2.99 but today you can pick it up for only $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
iOS Photography App – Monokrom B&W Photo Editor – Updated
We’re delighted to publish news of a new update to this popular app, Monokrom, created by Darren Richards. As Darren explains, ‘this update has three fixes : * In some cases what you saw on the screen was not what you got when you saved the image. This has been corrected. * The automatically displayed usage tips were being shown more often than intended. Corrected. * Corrected handling of situation where user taps the Save/Share button. This is a free update, if you have previously purchased Monokrom, if not, you can download it here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69/download.
Art highlights repression: Women are being exploited globally as Amnesty launches awareness campaign
An incredible article and one that I picked up on from my friend at Fujifilm highlights how far the world still needs to go to combat sexual repression. This article is full of alarming facts and figures. All these figures are the focus of a two year global campaign by Amnesty International launching today. ‘It calls for everyone to be able to learn about their body, sexual health and relationships, to choose their partner and when or if they have children and to access sexual and reproductive health services’. The charity teamed up with Tokyo based artist Hikaru Cho for the ‘My body My Rights’ campaign with a series of…
RED Epic Sensor Reviews – Kevin Carter/DxOMark and More…
Kevin Carter our Head of Technical Hardware as well as the Lead Technical Editor/Consultant for DxOMark, the British Journal of Photography among many others has just completed some huge technical reviews for DxOMark. Not least the RED Epic Dragon review ‘the first camera to break the 100-point DxOMark sensor score barrier’. He’s also reviewed the Leica X Vario sensor, the Leica S sensor, the Olympus Stylus 1 sensor, the Sony Alpha A500 sensor and a range of the best lenses for the Sony Alpha A300 both primes and zooms. Phew, no wonder I haven’t seen him! The DxOMark lab tests represent the gold standard for technical tests and these are…
iOS Photography App – PhotoMotion – Updated
Yesterday we published a great introductory tutorial by David Hayes relating to PhotoMotion and to help you gain the most from this new app, if you missed that, please go here. The developers EastCoastPixels have just updated this app and added support for adjusting photo duration timing for all photos and individual photos. A control to enable the video end fade optional has also been included. There’s also been a few user issues fixed. This is a free update, if you have previuosly purchased this app. If not, you can pick it up here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69.
