COLUMNS
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Mobile Shorts Tiny Shutter Advantage – PhotoToaster
Hello mobile photography fans, let me start by saying how honored I am for the opportunity to contribute my two cents here on TheAppWhisperer.com. I am humbled to be among such great talented photographers sharing their experience, knowledge, and tips with this incredible community. I look forward to learning along with all of you from these masters and look forward to sharing my experience and enthusiasm for mobile photography and photography in general with you. In the first episode of TheAppWhisperer.com Mobile Shorts Tiny Shutter Advantage I offer up a quick tip related to the new update of Photo Toaster, but one that really transfers over to photo editing in…
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Big Lens – Tutorial – Using Blur To Improve Your Mobile Images
A few days ago I was having a lovely conversation with my very good IG friend Ian Garrington (@iangarrington on Instagram), about the various blurring apps that one can find around. At one point he said something that made me come up with an idea, one of those moments when a light-bulb lights up over your head… If you are in the business of completing online surveys or if your job requires you to view webpages continuously in a day, then you probably got your fingers hurting because of endless mouse clicking. Auto Clicker download could be the solution to your painfully repetitive task. So here it is, the first…
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Appstrax – ‘Abstract Art And Abstractionists’
‘Joanne was kind enough to have me join her incredible stable of visual experts and writers to craft articles about those areas of image creation that they are most infatuated with. For me it is Abstract Art created with my iPhone, ergo the title of this column, Appstrax. So without further ado, I am here to shake things up a bit. My intention is to open your eyes to the unequivocal beauty of abstractions and to all those incredible lines of code that can wondrously aid you in creating these marvelous works of art. No, I am not necessarily referencing the “camera replacement apps” or, those “filter flavor of…
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Rudy Vogel – ‘The Renaissance Man’ – Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist
We’re delighted to welcome Rudy Vogel as one of our new Columnists to theappwhisperer.com. Rudy think of himself as a ‘Renaissance Man’: schooled in several disciplines and a practitioner of commerce, computer science and, most recently my Digital Art, which he has perfected over the last ten years. Rudy has traveled the world on business and has thereby inculcated the exotic tastes, colors, and aromas of foreign lands from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe and the Caribbean into his work. Having grown and traveled with his father who was in the fashion business, he learned some of his craft through osmosis and instinctually portrays some hints of textile, fabrics,…
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Ask Misho – ‘How to Add Text To Your Instagram Photo Using PicFrame’
First up, I’m excited to be writing for The App Whisperer. As Joanne mentioned in my introduction I was going to write this column about street photography and storytelling but I’ve changed my mind. Instead, I’d like to make this column into an old fashioned ‘mailbag’ where you guys can ask me anything that you’d like to know about iPhoneography. I’m open to any types of questions including shooting process, editing, apps, sharing and accessories. (We are really pleased with this great initiative by Misho, please send any requests to the bottom of this post and Misho will endeavor to answer them). JC Instagram To start off I’m…
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Richard Koci Hernandez Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist
We’re delighted to welcome Richard Koci Hernandez as one of our new Columnists to theappwhisperer.com. Koci as he is fondly known is a national Emmy® award-winning video and multimedia producer who worked as a photographer at the San Jose Mercury News for 15 years. His work for the Mercury News has earned him two Pulitzer Prize nominations and was awarded a national Emmy® award for the New Approaches to Documentary category for his work on the film,Uprooted. His work has appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times and international magazines, including Stern, and he has worked with lynda.com to produce a course on iPhoneography, iPhone Photography, from Shooting to Storytelling. In 2007 after taking his…
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Kuster’s Last Stand – ‘Ordinary To Extraordinary’
Recently, due to a few changes in my life and not wanting my son to deal with the inner-city school system, I’ve moved back to the western suburbs of Chicago to the neighborhood where I grew up. While I’m happy for my son, I must admit I find my surroundings very clean, convenient and peaceful. The only problem is that when you add all these adjectives together they add up to only one word…BORING! © Kevin Kuster – ‘BUS STOP’ (Photograph take at school bus parking lot) Although I love living in the suburbs, creatively I feel like I am drowning in a sea of just plain vanilla.…
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Kevin Kuster Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist
We’re delighted to welcome Kevin Kuster as one of our new Columnists to theappwhisperer.com. Kevin is a professional photographer and was the Senior Photography Editor for Playboy Magazine and Managing Content Producer for Playboy Digital for 18 years. Currently, Kevin is producer, Chief Editor at the #JJ community (@joshjohnson on Instagram) and a partner at Creator Gallery. Kevin’s column will be entitled ‘Kusters Last Stand’, found under ‘Kuster’ on our homepage and will be focused on mobile photography and will be light, fun and informative, with lots of great images, of course. We recently welcomed Richard Gray, Misho Baranovic, Dan Marcolina and Keith Tharp as Columnists to theappwhisperer and we…
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Keith Tharp Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist
We’re delighted to welcome Keith Tharp as one of our new Columnists to theappwhisperer.com. Keith Tharp is a Professional photographer working as Marketing director/ photography manager at a running sports event management company in New England. Keith is a lifelong photo enthusiast and as a result began Champion Photo, his sports photography business in 2005 which led him to his current position. As well as all that, Keith is one of the guys behind the Tiny Shutter podcast along with co-host Marc Sadowski. They later added Matt Hoffman to the show because ‘he’s a great iPhone Photographer and fun to have around’ and of course shares the passion. You may…
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iObsess – PhotoForge 2 Tutorial
We’re sure many of our readers have already seen our announcement earlier today of Dan Marcolina joining us as a Columnist. We’re really delighted to have him on board and to publish his first, of many, great tutorials. Check out the PhotoForge2 tutorial below and prepare to be seriously impressed with Dan’s awesome creativity and imaginative skills. PhotoForge 2 Tutorial Video