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How to Improve your Mobile Photography Skills by Martin Duerr for TheAppWhisperer
We are delighted to publish this wonderful article by our Tech Editor, Martin Duerr. He has created a step-point feature, full of tips to help focus your mobile photography skill-set. Don’t miss this (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Guess what? Yes, you constantly need to improve your photography skills … not only with your professional equipment, your small pocket sized camera is worth any effort to get more out of it. Whatever you are looking for: better image quality in terms of a technical aspect, or in terms of compositing, “messages”, image buildup and so on. Here are some facts and tips you can use to improve your ability to…
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Streets Ahead – Challenge 8 – Selfies On The Street – Deadline – 30th November 2014
Time for a new challenge. This challenge is different to our previous seflie challenge (which was in the style of Vivian Maier). This time, we would like you to capture people taking selfies of themselves on the street – ‘social media models’. So to be clear, this is NOT a self portrait challenge – the aim is to capture other people capturing themselves. A recap of the rules and procedure for entry: 1. ONE entry only – please do not upload any other images to this group as it has been created specifically for the challenge only. The admins will delete images that are not relevant. 2. Upload your image…
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Streets Ahead – Challenge 7 – Steal a Moment
Welcome to the showcase for our seventh challenge ‘Steal a Moment’. The objective of these challenges is to help us collectively practice and perhaps learn some new techniques. Each challenge will be based either on a shooting technique or perhaps a theme. We announced this challenge within our Streets Ahead Facebook group and it features fabulous mobile photography taken on the street using frames such as windows and doorways to create a ‘frame within a frame’. We would like Streets Ahead to be and interactive group, and for members to try to participate in the challenges. If you are a woman street photographer, please join our growing community (see links…
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The Guetta Fringe – Halloween Mobile Photography and Art Special!
We’re delighted to publish this video and poem to Roger Guetta’s wonderful The Guetta Fringe Column. Roger created a fabulous Facebook Group especially for mobile photography and art Halloween creations and we have selected some images from that to create this video. We hope you enjoy it as well as the poetry. Many thanks to all the contributors to this video including: Rachel Loomis, Carolyn Hall Young, Roger Guetta, Dominque Torrent, Meri Walker, Benamon Tame, Yannick Brice, Antonio Mojica, Andrew Lucchesl, Rob DePaolo, Andrea Bigianni, Jo Sullivan, Anette Schmitz-Millrath, Robert Rozier, Julien Revellion, Kristina Ruckova, Jennifer Bracewell, Elaina Wilcox, Maura Shine, Giancarlo Beltrame, Yannick Brice, Paul Toussaint, Marsha Estes, Brett…
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Mobile Photo Essay – Día de los Muertos by Gina Costa
We are delighted to publish this totally fabulous mobile photo essay by Gina Costa. As this is a very spooky weekend, Gina has written topically about Día de los Muertos – the Day of the Dead! Don’t miss this (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I want to introduce readers to an important celebration which parallels the Western World’s Halloween tradition and is becoming ever more popular in parts of the globe: the “Day of the Dead” (Spanish: Día de los Muertos).
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Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 43 – by Donna Donato
Welcome back to the forty-third article in the column, Mobile Movies. We at TheAppWhisperer have been inspired by the Flickr upgrade of 1 Terabyte of storage for everyone and have wanted to launch a mobile movie section for some time. Now seems to be perfect, the new Flickr upgrade will allow for a full three minutes of 1080p HD quality video per single film and you can have as many as you have storage space for. Each week I (you can find me on Flickr here) will curate the movie uploads to our new Flickr group MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer – I will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the ones selected. ”The internet has created…
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StreetVIEW – Cheyenne – The Magic City of the Plains by Laura Peischl
We are delighted to publish this wonderful article by our Columnist Laura Peischl who’s travelling the US right now. As well as writing the text, Laura sent us some beautiful mobile images from her trip. We have put these together into a video showcase with the music of her choice ‘Blue Train’ by Johnny Cash. Don’t miss this… “The City of Cheyenne had its beginning in 1867, when the Union Pacific Railroad came through on its way to the west coast. The town site was first surveyed by General Grenville Dodge and was named for an Indian tribe that roamed the area (originally called ‘Shey’ an’ nah’, belonging to the tribe…
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Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 42 – by Donna Donato
Welcome back to the forty second article in the column, Mobile Movies. We at TheAppWhisperer have been inspired by the Flickr upgrade of 1 Terabyte of storage for everyone and have wanted to launch a mobile movie section for some time. Now seems to be perfect, the new Flickr upgrade will allow for a full three minutes of 1080p HD quality video per single film and you can have as many as you have storage space for. Each week I (you can find me on Flickr here) will curate the movie uploads to our new Flickr group MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer – I will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the ones selected. ”The internet has…
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StreetVIEW – 7500 feet above the ordinary – The Stanley Hotel by Laura Peischl
We are delighted to publish this wonderful article by our Columnist Laura Peischl who’s travelling the US right now. As well as writing the text, Laura sent us some beautiful mobile images from her trip. We have put these together into a video showcase with the music of her choice ‘The Shining Soundtrack – Masquerade’. Don’t miss this… “I visited the Stanley Hotel… And it was creepy! And fascinating the same time! The Stanley Hotel is a 140-room neo-Georgian hotel in Estes Park, Colorado. Located within sight of the Rocky Mountain National Park, the Stanley offers panoramic views of the Rockies. It was built by Freelan Oscar Stanley of…
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Streets Ahead Interview: Connie Gardner Rosenthal – Mobile Street Photography
This week, the Women’s Street Photography Collective (Streets Ahead) is pleased and honoured to feature Connie Gardner Rosenthal in our interview segment. Connie has a great eye for composition. Her recent street shots of her trip to India are beautiful and capture the character of people and the atmosphere of the location. I highly recommend a visit to her galleries Flickr EyeEm























