Are Smartphones Comparable to Compacts & DSLRs – Kevin Carter Takes A Look Via DxOMark
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 pitched the Nokia Lumia 1020 sensor against various DSLR’s and compact cameras to try and decipher whether mobiles really are comparable in terms of image quality. Kevin says, “recent media reports claim that sales of digital compacts have been hit hard by the increasing popularity of the smartphone, and, as a result, several camera manufacturers have ceased production of low-end models. With their convenience and connectivity along with the emergence of social media sites it’s not difficult to see why a smartphone would be more…
Nokia Lumia 1020’s RAW Image Quality – DxOMark/Kevin Carter Takes A Look
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 the Nokia Lumia 1020’s RAW Image quality. DPReview use Kevin’s scientific data in their reviews, as they say here, ‘With the device now capturing images in DNG Raw format our partners at DxOMark have been able to put the Lumia 1020 through its Raw-based sensor testing and compared it to hundreds of cameras in its database. Considering that we are looking at a smartphone, the results are pretty interesting. With a DxOMark sensor score of 41 points, the Nokia 1020 ranks 222 out of…
BlemishedEye Mobile Images Accompanied By British Composer, Edmund Hunt’s Music
We were delighted when David Booker aka BlemishedEye contacted us last week with news of this wonderful project that he had embarked upon with British Composer, Edmund Hunt. David contacted Edmund last year to ask if he might consider creating a piece of music to accompany some of his very special images. The result is quite spectacular. David explains, “After familiarising himself with my photography, he obliged and in early January 2014 sent me a short composition entitled ‘Ungelic is Us’ (a line from the Old English poem Wulf and Eadwacer, meaning ‘it is different for us’). This video is the resulting collaboration”. Edmund’s work has been played in the UK and…
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – January 26, 2014
We have just finished curating this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase, it is totally outstanding and full of incredible mobile photography and art. It is a joy to curate and a pleasure to view. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, Please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here. With many thanks to our Flickr Group Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: Mariko Klug, goyoxis, Shel Serkin, Brandon Kidwell, Nick Kenrick, Erika Brothers, Anne-Martine Parent, Ryan Vaarsi, mutablend, Liz Traynor, Mohsen Chinehkesh, Keisuke Takahashi, Mainstream withexplicitdreams – devine1225aaa,…
Tickle Your Fancy – #24
Welcome back to our twenty fourth 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… Olivia Arthur…
iOS Photography App – Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor – Temporary Price Drop
Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor is a popular app for iOS photo editing and it’s one that we’ve publsihed a series of tutorials on recently by Jerry Jobe. If you’ve missed those, please go here. Usually Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor retails for $2.99/£1.99 but today you can pick it up for only $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
iOS Photography App – PhotoToaster – Available For Less Today
PhotoToaster is a great app and one that many of our regular contributors and columnists use often. It’s a good image editor with quality adjustments and also fabulous effects. Usually PhotoToaster retails for $2.99/£1.99 but today you can pick it up for $1.99/£1.49 – click here to download.
A Day In The Life of Amadou Diallo – A Multi Talented Musican and Mobile Photographer!
Welcome to our very exciting interview column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our one hundredth and one installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Amadou Diallo a lifelong East Coaster (except for a brief stint in the Emerald City) who moved to New York City at the age of 20 and immediately learned that nobody cares where you’re from,…
You May Also Like
Sarah Jarrett – A Day In The Life Interview With An Incredibly Talented Mobile Photographer And Artist
Mobile Photography Interview – A Day in the Life of Armineh Hovanesian from Glendale, California
Mobile Photography Interview – A Day in the Life of Jill Lian from New York, United States
ProCamera 7 – iOS Photography App – Temporary Price Drop
ProCamera 7 is an accompolished and popular app for iOS mobile photographers. It’s for some, their camera replacement app and is one that many of our Columnists and contributors use on a regular basis. Usually this app retails for $4.99/£2.99 but today you can pick it up for $0.99/£.69. Click here to download.
Pixol for iPhone – App Giveaway!
Pixol launched today, essentially it’s a photographic puzzle game allowing you to play on Instagram with up to 25 players and 120 images. This is a developing app and we’re sure it will grow considerably. Twenty five photographers have already contributed images to create these puzzles, many of these artists are known to us, including Geri Centonza (@gericentonza) and Mextures developer Merek Davis (@merekdavis) for example. We’ll be publishing a review of this app very soon. In the meantime, if you would like to receive a promo code and start playing, then join our ever expanding Twitter followers and Facebook fans, RETWEET THIS POST and send a reply to the…
