Tickle Your Fancy – #18 – NSFW
Welcome back to our eighteenth 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… Image – Ophelia…
ProCamera – iOS Photography App – Temporarily Free
This is the traditional version of ProCamera, it’s a classic camera replacement app and today it is totally free. Usually this must have app retails for $4.99/£2.99. Click here to download.
ProCamera 7 – iOS Photography App – Temporary Price Drop
ProCamera 7 is the iOS 7 version of ProCamera and it’s an incredible camera replacement app. It’s one that many of our Columnists and Contributors use regularly. Usually ProCamera 7 retails for $4.99/£2.99 but today you can download it for $0.99/£0.69, click here to download.
Leonardo – Photo Editor with Layer, Selection and Mask – Temporary Price Drop
Leonardo – Photo Editor with Layer, Selection and Mask is fast becoming a popular app for iPhone photography. It comes from the same developer stable as PhotoWizard and Superimpose, equally popular apps. Leonardo usually retails for $4.99/£2.99 but today you can download it for only $0.99/£.069. Click here to download.
‘Psychometry’ Digital Photo Book Giveaway
We announced news earlier today that this incredible digital photography book ‘Psychometry‘ had become a finalist in the App-Adult non-fiction category of The Digital Book Awards. It’s a fantastic accomplishment all round by Carol Golemboski. It’s fully interactive and features psychologically charged still life imagery as well as studio tours, essays, video interviews and more. Carol has kindly given us some codes to share with our readers – it usually retails for $9.99/£6.99 but would you like one for free? If you would please join our ever expanding Twitter followers and Facebook fans, RETWEET THIS POST and send a reply to the bottom of this page telling us what you…
iPhone Photography Tutorial – ‘Atmospheric Mobile Photography Shooting’ – By Paul Brown
We’re delighted to publish Paul Brown’s atmospheric workflow tutorial for mobile photographers. This tutorial focuses mainly on the fog that we have all been experiencing in the UK this week but of course, it’s not country specific – we are sure you’ll find this tutorial incredible useful wherever you find yourself. We have published several of Paul Brown’s workflows recently. Please take a look at our Paul Brown archive here. Over to you Paul (foreword by Joanne Carter)… “What are the most atmospheric conditions you can take a photograph in? For me, my iPhone tapping finger starts twitching at the hint of fog. So when the weather forecast predicts…
Samsung Electronics Integrates Digital Imaging Division With Mobile Communications Division
Well, it’s no surprise to us to read in the ETNews report, that we monitor, that Samsung have merged their camera and smartphone communication divisions into one. Smartphones and cameras are merging at an incredible rate of knots and the Samsung Galaxy hybrid is a key example of this trend. Samsung Electronics explained, “We will transplant the brand, sales networks, software competency and manufacturing competitiveness of the Wireless Business Division into the Camera Business Division, and integrate the technical know-how of the two business divisions into competency for differentiating our smartphones.” This is a big shakeup and perhaps wake up call to the industry by concentrating on one division Samsung…
‘Psychometry’ Photo Book Announced As Finalist For Digital Book Awards 2013
We’re really delighted to see that Carol Golemboski’s incredible digital photo book entitled Psychometry is a finalist in the App-Adult non fiction category of The Digital Book Awards. It’s a stunning book with outstanding images, interviews and commentary. Psychometry uses new media to illuminate Carol Golemboski’s psychologically charged still life imagery. Interactive features highlight her unique darkroom process, which combines photography and drawing in ambiguous and provocative ways. Studio tours, location shots, essays, video interviews and process demonstrations give insight into the mind of the artist. Viewers discover engaging bonus material in this innovative app by flipping between the horizontal and vertical views. To download Psychometry, go here. It retails…
Instagram – Updated With Instagram Direct!
Instagram was updated last night (GMT) with a brand new photo messaging service – similar to Snapchat. Instagram Direct allows you to send images and videos directly through the app to other people. There’s no ‘chat’ facility per se, it’s more about sending a singular image or video and then chatting about it. A photo or video is required to start a new conversation but up to 15 members can discuss the same media. When you open Instagram, you’ll now see a new icon in the top right corner of your home feed. Tap it to open your inbox where you’ll see photos and videos that people have sent to…
Filterstorm Neue – iOS Photography App – Updated
Filterstorm Neue is a fantastic app and it’s hard to believe it’s only just over a month old. Filterstorm Neue has just received its first 1.1 update and it’s looking good. Take a look at What’s New below to find out what the developer, Tai Shimizu has added. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $3.99/£2.49. What’s New? New Features: • Histogram now shown in Curves and Levels controls • Levels control. You can double tap to add a new levels point, and drag off to remove. • Individual channel curves • Luminance curves •…
