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iOS Photography Tutorial – ‘PhotoToaster Part 2: Colors, Vignettes and Textures’
We’re delighted to publish the second of three Photo Toaster tutorials by Jerry Jobe (if you missed Part 1, please go here). This time Jerry Jobe takes a look at colors, vignettes and textures – I am sure you will enjoy this very much, take it away Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PhotoToaster retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here. “We’re taking a multi-part look at one of the many basic photo editors available to mobile photographers, PhotoToaster. In the first part we looked at importing images, controlling the settings, using and saving presets, and the first set of basic sliders that help control your image. Note: After…
iOS Photography App – LensFX – Updated
LensFX is another popular FX effects app for mobile photography by very popular app developers BrainFeverMedia. It has just been updated with a new set of masking tools. This is a free update if you have previously purchased LensFX, if not, you can download it here. It retails for $1.99/£1.49/download (there are in-app purchases).
iOS Photography – Retromatic/HD – Temporarily Free
Retromatic for iPhone and Retromatic HD for iPad are popular photo effects apps and both temporarily free today (there are in-app purchases). Retromatic usually retails for $1.99/£1.49. Click here to download. Retromatic HD usually retails for the same and you can download it here
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – 20 July 2014
Wow, we have just published this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase and once again it is fabulous – with incredibly high level mobile photography and art demonstrated from around the world. Please take a few minutes to enjoy this… If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here. With many thanks to our Flickr Group Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Lorenka Campos. Mathieu L, Meri Walker, asf_nyc, Joel A, Catherine Caddigan, Nicolas Xanthos, Anne Highfield, Rob DePaolo, Jane White, Tania Konnerth, Paul Brown, Nick Kenrick, Jennifer Henriksen, Cedric Blanchon, Vanessa Vox, Giulia Baita, Jennifer Bracewell,…
Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 37 – by Donna Donato
Welcome back to the thirty-seventh 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…
MIRA Mobile Prize – Overall Winner Announced!
We are delighted to announce the overall winner for the MIRA Mobile Prize is Janine Graf with her rhino image with blue balloons. This photograph was chosen from the shortlist of fifty that myself and other members of the Jury had selected. It reflects high evaluation; consistent work; and was also the preferred image of the curator and the representant of the municipality for the MIRA competition. Many many congratulations Janine. This image along with the shortlisted images will be exhibited in Porto on 6 September at the opening exhibition. Many artists are traveling to this event, if I can, I would like to be there too. This is a…
Alternative Processes – Using Your Mobile Phone To Create Cyanotypes
As our regular readers will know, we have been looking at alternative post processing of mobile images for sometime. We have a Flickr group dedicated to this and we publish tutorials and additional information to help you make hard copies of your mobile images using alternative processes. We have published several articles already to our new section, see here. We’re delighted to be working closer with Matt Shapoff of Handmade on Peconic Bay (HMPB) fame. Shapoff originally an engineering student before attending of the photo department of NYU – he knew where his passion lay, he switched majors and used his engineering knowledge to experiment with photography. Shapoff received his…
Feature Shoot – 2014 Emerging Photography Awards
The Feature Shoot 2014 Emerging Photography Awards is a new international photography competition for emerging photographers who are ready to kickstart their careers. We know it can be difficult to market your work, design a website, fund new projects, and network with the right people on top of it all, so we hope to take that off your plate! Three talented photographers will be provided with the resources they need to get their career off to a strong start. They’re looking for up to five documentary, portrait, or fine art images displaying a strong narrative from a single series. We can’t wait to see your best work. FREE to apply! Application…
PhotoPhilanthropy – #WorldFightsAIDS Photo Contest
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) and PhotoPhilanthropy are excited to announce the World Fights AIDS Photo Contest on Instagram. They are seeking photos from across the globe that resonate with the mission of EGPAF, the global leader in the fight to end AIDS. The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation isn’t only fighting AIDS, they are changing the way the world fights AIDS. They work hand-in-hand with governments, partners, mothers, families, volunteers and donors toward a health and social infrastructure that can end HIV/AIDS – and keep it eliminated. Your assignment: Every community across the world has at least one unsung hero or grassroots organization working to eradicate this…
Olloclip App – Updated
Do you use an Olloclip lens for your mobile photography? If not, we recommend that you try it. The 4-in-1 lens for example consists of a fisheye capturing approximately a 180° field of view, there’s a wide angle lens, a 10x macro and a 15x macro. As well as the actual lens there is an Olloclip app and it has recently been updated. It’s a major update with iPad support, photo stabilization, picture-in-picture feature for macro mode, video cropping, low light boost on iPhone 5 and a lot more besides. We have listed all the new features below. This is a free app, click here to download Click here to…
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