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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.…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise Showcase – October 2016
“For me, photography has become a way of attempting to make sense of the strange world that I see around me. I don’t ever expect to achieve that understanding, but the fact that I am trying comforts me.” Mikhael Subotzky Thank you all so much for participating and inspiring us with your incredible photos. As always, it was difficult for us to choose such few images for the showcase from all those that were submitted – such stunning images in both color and black and white. Welcome, also, to those newer to our street photography community – it is great to have you join us! As a reminder, we choose…
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Portrait of an Artist – ‘Dia de los Muertos’ – Challenge
Welcome to our second Portrait of an Artist Challenge. The theme of this challenge is ‘Día de los Muertos’. The main objective being to recreate through a portrait or self portrait, your interpretation of the Mexican tradition of Día de Muertos, which is celebrated on November 2nd. No Halloween allusions, please. I think of this challenge as a great opportunity to look into the difference of those two celebrations and get to know a little more about a very meaningful and beautiful tradition. Please read the following instructions. The images that do not comply to this guidelines will not be considered: All submissions must be posted ONLY to our specific…
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Google Pixel 4K Cinematic Video Footage
Filmmaker Matteo Bertoli recently purchased a Google Pixel smartphone and spent the weekend testing the camera in Park Cit and Salt Lake City downtown. For this video Matteo used a Rhino slider and the Shoulderpod S1 for handheld footage. He did not use any lenses or gimbal. He edited in FCPX and graded in DaVinci Resolve. He also used Filmic Pro and the native camera app to record the entire video. Check out the video here, it is incrediby impressive!
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How To Use The New Portrait Mode on the iPhone 7 Plus by Austin Mann
Many thanks to my friend Austin Mann who has granted permission for us to reproduce his article on the new Portrait Mode for the iPhone 7 Plus. Take a look at these notes by Mann to help you master these great new features. You can read this article on his site here
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