Latest Issue of Hipstamatic Snap Magazine Now Available – The #NOMNOMNOM Issue
The latest issue of HIpstamatic’s Snap magazine is now available to download, this is #NOMNOMNOM issue and it is full of delicous food images. I have to confess I love photographing food (and eating it) and this issue ticks quite a few boxes for me. It’s free to download, just go here to do so.
Tickle Your Fancy – #9
Welcome back to our ninth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. We launched this nine weeks ago and it’s already becoming very popular. ‘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…
The Photographer’s Transit – Our Daily App Giveaway
We’re delighted to offer our loyal readers copies of a new app, The Photographer’s Transit today, each worth $4.99/£2.99. This app has been created by the developers Crookneck Consulting, of The Photographer’s Ephemeris fame. ‘The Photographer’s Transit (“Photo Transit”) is a map-based shot planning tool for outdoor photographers who use interchangeable lens cameras (such as SLRs). Plan the best possible camera, lenses and shooting locations for your photo trip or assignment using the sophisticated built-in field of view simulator. Photo Transit includes detailed elevation profile information so you can scout your sightlines ahead of time, and check whether your planned focal length will capture your subject. Photo Transit’s vertical field of view…
Find Pope Francis On Instagram
Well, not many people know, or at least they didn’t until huffingtonpost.com published a feature that Pope Francis has an account on Instagram. It’s been kept low-key to date but the Catholic News Service has reported ‘after a trial run of several months, the Vatican Instagram is set to become one of News.va’s main platforms for social media communication.’ Pope Francis is very popular on Twitter, take a look at @Pontifex and you’ll see that it’s currently sporting 3,062,959 followers. He appears to tweet daily, with posts like this: ‘Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy’. ‘Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring…
Simply HDR – Temporarily Free
Simply HDR from the uber prolific app developer JixiPix is temporarily free today. It’s a great app and well worth having in your arsenal. It usually retails for $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download for free today.
Tangent – Temporarily Free
Tangent is a very popular app for iOS photography and rightly so. We published a recent tutorial by one of our Columnists MaryJane Sarvis with it a while ago, if you missed that – go here. Tangent usually retails for $0.99/£0.69 but if you click here, you’ll pick it up free today.
Competition – PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards 2013
We recently announced that we would be featuring a photo competition every single day within our brand new Competitions category – maximising the opportunities you have to enter great contests and not to miss them. Today, we’re featuring The PhotoPhilanthropy Activist Awards 2013 that identify outstanding work created by photographers in collaboration with nonprofit organizations worldwide. For the first time in its history, PhotoPhilanthropy offers this year a mobile photography award to complement its traditional student, amateur, and professional category awards for most compelling documentary photography essays completed on behalf of nonprofits. The Activist Awards program honors innovative approaches to visual storytelling and creative partnerships between photographers and nonprofit organizations…
Mobile Photography Tip Of The Day – Number 37
Welcome to another brand new section from your favorite mobile photography website and one of the most popular in the world. Today, we’re publishing our thirty seventh Mobile Photography/Art Tip Of The Day to our brand new section of the site. Every day we will publish a short quick tip to help you with your mobile photography, this may be related to editing your image, capturing your image, printing your image, all manner of things, across the complete photographic and art mobile genre – we’ll be featuring great mobile street photography tips, great blending tips, great cloning tips, we will cover it all from some of the greatest mobile photographers…
‘Paper’ iPad App Partners With Moleskin – Raises $15m
A very interesting article published by Stuart Dredge for The Guardian this afternoon discusses the developers behind the uber popular app, Paper, FiftyThree in which in their latest Series A funding, they raised $15m and ‘explicitly outlined ambitions for “moving beyond touch and into the physical world of accessories” – drawing on its team’s hardware experience within Microsoft (Kinect, Xbox and the never-launched Courier) and Sonos’. ‘In 2013, FiftyThree has been taking Paper’s digital charms into the physical world. Earlier this year, it created a customised version of the app for the Fashion Rules exhibition at Kensington Palace in London, helping visitors design their own dresses while gazing at real royal…
Win A New Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-QX10!
If you’d like to win a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-QX10 then make sure you enter the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards. They’re looking for ‘smiles’ this time around, so just enter your image into the “Smile” category – Open Competition today for your chance to win. One lucky photographer to submit his or her image between today and 8th October will receive a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-QX10 lens-style camera to turn your smartphone into a power-packed specialist camera. As smartphone photography continues to surge in popularity globally, the DSC-QX10 can take your images to the next level. Link the lens with your mobile via Wi-Fi direct or NFC and take extraordinary images…
