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Pro photo tips for using Portrait mode on iPhone 7 Plus
Apple continues to embrace photography with their new iPhone 7 Plus, as we all know. On 6 December 2016, Apple published an article to their newsroom blog providing tips for using the Portraiture mode on the brand spanking new, iPhone 7 Plus. These tips were contributed by professional photographers and represent a good learning platform. To read the post in full on the Apple newsroom blog, please go here.
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Mobile Photography – Streets Ahead – Fifty First Edition – Women’s Street Photography Collective
Welcome to our fifty first edition of “StreetsAhead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter.If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general. So, if you are…
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TheAppWhisperer – Portrait of An Artist – ‘Dia de los Muertos’ – Challenge Results
I am so delighted to publish our second Portrait of an Artist challenge results. The theme of this challenge was for you to recreate through a portrait or self portrait, your interpretation of the Mexican tradition of Día de los Muertos. We had some fabulous entries and our editor for this column, the wonderful Ile Mont, has curated and critiqued a number of them. Huge thanks to Ile and to all our artists too! (Foreword by Joanne Carter). “To be willing and open to experience other cultures that are not ours is an act of growth, respect and learning. I am very happy and grateful to those who decided to…
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‘Keep The Focus’ – Meditation Techniques for Street Photographers – Free eBook
Many of us either try or do use meditation in our daily routines to aid our well being. Bringing brain and body together, in harmony, can help us deal with many things that we face each day. I need to practice it more, I know that many in our mobile photography community are huge advocates of it, not least our dear friend Carolyn Hall Young, who I know has practised it since she was 16 years old and it has helped her cope with so much. So, with that in mind, I was very interested to learn of this new free eBook ‘Keep the Focus’, which is a practical guide…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise Showcase – November 2016
“Of course it’s all luck.” Henri Cartier-Bresson Thank you all so much for inspiring us with your incredible photos – we were quite blown away by the varying depths of creativity in this group! It makes it very difficult for us to choose such few images for the showcase from all those that were submitted. We hope you will enjoy our November showcase as much as Ilana and I enjoyed putting it together! A special thank you to Joanne. As a reminder, we choose images for the showcase that are in keeping with our group’s intention and guidelines “We believe that it is important to focus on the key aspects…
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Mobile Movies – ‘Yes, Travel!’ – New Challenge
Welcome to our latest Mobile Movies Challenge. The theme of this challenge is Travel. Movement fascinates us. Creating movies with our iPhone is simple: it is always with us and with few resources we can make a good movie. This Challenge invites you to observe the vehicles around us and produce short movies with cars, metro, bus, bicycle, train, boat or any means of transport. We can observe different situations and different scenes with travelers on a train or a car or a bus. This Challenge offers a starting point for study and research. Any means of expression is welcome: Slow Motion, Time Lapse, Reverse, Replay. The video can be…
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Fashion Shoot with Apple iPhone 7 Plus Portraiture Mode
My friends at MacWorld put together this video fashion shoot utilsing the Portrait Mode of the iPhone 7 Plus. The results are quite good, take a look…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Eighth Challenge – ‘People Working in the Street’
Hello Everyone! The theme of our next challenge is ‘People Working in the Street’ “The question is not what you look at, but what you see” Henry Thoreau. This is a popular theme and for good reason — people are at work everywhere on the street. In our daily lives, we see folks in uniforms working for local municipalities on the street, such as policemen and women, traffic officers, school crossing guards, street cleaners to name just a few. Others sell things on the street from clothing and accessories to fruits and veggies, books, or anything at all. People work in ways that can be seen from the street, in…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Seventh Challenge Results – ‘Shapes and Geometry in the Street’
Welcome to our Seventh StreetWise Challenge Showcase – ‘Shapes and Geometry in the Street’. We are thrilled to share it with you. Thank you so much for participating and sharing your wonderful photographs. Lee and I were thrilled by all the beautiful submissions to this fun challenge. There were so many creative ways in which you incorporated the theme into your photographs that it was quite difficult for us to choose amongst them — we were truly inspired by each and every one. Also, we are growing as a group and we couldn’t be more excited. It’s such a pleasure for Lee and I to see new people added to…
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New App on the Streetography
There’s a pretty cool smart new app on the street, going by the name of Streetography. Now this app helps you to explore new areas by crowd sourcing locations and information. It’s like a Maps for Instagram. By utilising 500px, Streetography essentially puts other photographers images on the map to help you explore. By viewing images of streets, through other photographers lenses, it helps you, discern where you might want to visit. Interested in street art? See if you can see any images of street art in that vicinity via the app. This is a new and upcoming app, it aims to branch out with locations portrayed throughout the world.…
