Surreal Photography – Creating The Impossible – Book
We’ve just received a copy of this book (thank you so much Janine) and it is really such a good read and visual treat. It’s not completely based around mobile photography but that does play a significant part. The primary feature of this book is Surreal Photography and whether you have started the process with your mobile, DSLR, compact it’s doesn’t matter because the tutorials thereafter are based on your capture medium. Janine Graf’s tutorial ‘One Step and Then The Next Get You Where You’re Going’ is in-depth, there are also many photoshop tutorials by many other photographers including, Natalie Dybisz, Jon Jacobsen and Patrick Desmet. This book reveals the…
Skype Gets Free Video Messaging & More For iOS
Yesterday Skype updated their iPhone and iPad apps to bring free and unlimited video messaging, stability improvements for audio and video calls, as well as the ability to share more photos reliably. Previously you could only access free video messaging if you had a Skype premium account with unlimited allowance but this feature has now been rolled out to everyone. This update is a great improvement over the previous version and we highly recommend you upgrade or download if you haven’t already picked up this app. To do so click here.
Hipstamatic Lens/Film Guide – iBook – Our Daily App Giveaway
Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer. We value our readers so much and that’s why we want to share our love of apps with you. Each day we give away free apps, better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’re giving away a brand new iPad iBook ‘Hipstamatic Lens/Film Guide’ by Cynthia Louden. We’ve been taking a look through this book and it’s quite comprehensive. It offers examples of lenses//film combination images and retails for $2.99/£1.99. It’s currently only available for iPad/mini but will be coming to iPhone soon. Would you like to read this book for free? Then join our ever expanding Twitter…
Top Five Photo Apps – Photo App Lounge – Yannick Brice
Welcome to our Photo App Lounge section of theappwhisperer.com. This is an area on our site where we ask highly accomplished mobile photographers what their top five photo apps are and why. Kicking us off today is Yannick Brice, an outstanding mobile photographer and artist. We have also featured an example image for each app that he has highlighted and we have been totally astounded by his fabulously creative images. We know you will enjoy this a lot… Number One – Lo-Mob ©Yannick Brice – Lo-Mob: Filter INSTAnt-X Wide I am a fan of Polaroid films, I use this application because it allows me to experiment with new…
Brand New iPro Lens System For iPhone 5 From Schneider Optics
It’s proving a good time for new lenses for the iPhone, not only have Olloclip just announced a new telephoto and circular polarizer (see here) but Schneider Optics have also launched their new iProLens System for the iPhone 5, known as Series 2. We previously announced this news back in April, see here. The team have redesigned the case to fit the slimmer (compared to iPhone 4/S) phone and they have also improved the lens system to achieve optimum results with the higher resolution of the iPhone 5 lens and sensor. There are now five interchangeable lenses available in the iPro Lens System. These include a new macro, wide angle,…
Olloclip Announces New Telephoto Lens With Polarizer Lens
We were lucky to get a sneak peak of this lens and circular polarizer several weeks ago in a secret London location and we’re delighted to announce that the product was officially unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in New York City yesterday. The telephoto lens is all glass, coated and consists of four elements offering double the magnification of the iPhone lens. Obviously you can increase this further with digital zoom. We were and still are particularly excited about the circular polarizer filter which can be used on the fisheye as well as the macro lens of the three-in-one system (with the step-down adaptor). Retail prices for the telephoto…
parallel ll perspectives – By JQ Gaines and Catherine Restivo – Ninth Edition
We are delighted to publish the ninith edition of the wonderful parallel ll perspectives column of Catherine Restivo and JQ Gaines. In this article, they both edited exactly the same image but in very different ‘parallel’ ways. We have created two separate screen shows of both of their images along with their own individual tutorial audio to demonstrate this entirely. We really hope you enjoy this wonderful article today in this very popular Column, many thanks to Catherine and JQ for their excellent work. We have included all the still images incase you want a longer look at each one. JQ’s Video Catherine’s Video JQ’s Original…
JOBY Photo & Video Competition! – Win Over $200 Worth Of Prizes!
We are launching a brand new JOBY Photo & Video Competition! We want to see your very best ‘extreme angle’ inspired images and videos! If you don’t yet own a JOBY product, be sure to check out our great tutorial and learn all about the flexible and fun features of the JOBY GorillaPod. We’re sure it will inspire your ‘extreme angle’ photos and videos! In honor of Instagram’s new update, we are also announcing a video category for the first time ever! We want to see what you can create in just 15 seconds of moving images using Instagram’s new video feature. You can enter both categories as…
PictureBook – ‘Black Day Dolls’ – By Benamon Tame
We’re delighted to publish Benamon Tame’s sixteenth article to his column PictureBook with us here at theappwhisperer. In PictureBook Benamon concentrates on the the story behind the image. As Benamon himself describes it: ‘As Photographic artists we do not just capture stories but create them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from my own story series but will also look at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Don’t miss this uber creative article from Benamon, fabulous piece. Over to you Benamon. (foreword by Joanne Carter). The Black Day Dolls ‘The Black Day Dolls’ – ©Benamon Tame One…
Technical Tutorial – ProCam Updates – ‘They’re At It Again!’
Procam is proving to be one of those great apps whose developers are constantly working to make it even better. These past couple of weeks has shown this to be true in that they’ve come out with two great updates. I thought I’d put together a quick review of what’s new in this app. We have previously published other great tutorials using this app, if you have missed those, please go here. ProCam retails for $0.99/$0.69 and you can download it here. One of the things they’ve done is to put the Photo and Video settings under separate tabs in the SET menu. This certainly makes life easier…particularly…



























