Photo Education & Accessibility
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The Royal Photographic Society Education – Workshops and Lectures in Partnership with TheAppWhisperer
I just mentioned how delighted I am to be working closer with The Royal Photographic Society (The RPS) and reported on their very generous bursaries (see here). I also wanted to draw your attention to a series of Visual Literacy Lectures that The RPS are hosting within the UK during the year. This year’s educational focus is on Women in Photography and featured photographers range from early pioneers such as Julia Margaret Cameron and renowned street photographers including Vivian Maier to contemporary photographers such as Gina Glover and Eva Stenham. This series of talks reflects on the historical and contemporary contribution made by women to photography. From the perspective of…
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The Royal Photographic Society Bursaries in Partnership with TheAppWhisperer
I am truly delighted to be working closer with The Royal Photographic Society (The RPS). Founded in 1853, for more than a century The RPS has existed to promote photography and image-making and to support photographers in realising their potential, irrespective of their level of knowledge, equipment or skills. The Society also acts as a public advocate for photography and photographers. The RPS produces a range of publications. The Journal (I have written in the past for this title) is the world’s oldest photography magazine and all members receive a free monthly copy of the latest issue. The RPS have just announced four new bursaries to help students and other…
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Accessibility Education – Pairing Hearing Aids to Your iPhone or iPad
As many of you will know, I was very recently fitted with some totally fabulous high end digital hearing aids. I’m so excited about these devices! We have a Photo Education and Accessibility section within TheAppWhisperer and our editor Luis Perez covers this. Luis is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of South Florida in 2013 and is the author of Mobile Learning for All from Corwin Press. His work has appeared in THE Journal, The Loop Magazine, and the New York Times Bits Blog. I wanted to include a section about pairing hearing…
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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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The GoPro Camera For The Visually Impaired Photographer – TheAppWhisperer
We are delighted to publish our latest article to our Photo Education & Accessibility.There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness (something that I have) to many other difficulties that people experience, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. Our Photo Education & Accessibility Editor, Luis Perez is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of South Florida in…
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Bob Weil iPhoneography Course – Final Day For 50% Discount
This is a complete online course on creating fantastic layered photo art compositions, where you learn not only how to take great photos and edit them into a striking artistic images, but also how to combine multiple images (as well as textures and graphic elements and typography) to create rich, intricate works of art — works you could immediately print to canvas and display. Acclaimed award-winning photographer and artist Bob Weil (and co-author of the sensational book The Art of iPhone Photography: Creating Great Photos and Art on Your iPhone) will take you on a journey unlike any other. You won’t simply learn to run some apps on an image…
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Creating Mobile Images Using Plant Matter… Anthotypes For Mobile Photography
As you know, we are looking at as many ways to expand mobile photography into the many realms of ‘traditional/typical’ photography as possible. We have a close working relationship with the team at Impossible as you would have seen with the number and quality of articles we have published, if not see here – and we have a blossoming relationship with the team at PhotoJoJo. We were interested in the following article relating to analog post-processing that they published last year, it’s the perfect time (in many places of the world) to delve into anthotypes and create a photo print with your captured mobile images and whatever else you can…
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Photo Education & Accessibility – ‘Getting the Picture with Panoramas on iPhone’ by Luis Perez
We are delighted to publish our third tutorial to our new section within theappwhisperer – Photo Education & Accessibility. There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness to many other difficulties that people suffer with, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. Our Photo Education & Accessibility Editor, Luis Perez is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of…
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Click London – Mobile Photography Workshop – Tomorrow – 12 April 2014
We’re delighted to publish news of a new workshop from the wonderful team at Click London. Vivi Hanson Sacredote and Rob Pearson Wright will be hosting a Creative Apping Workshop tomorrow – April 12, 2014 with a small group, consisting of a maximum of eight students, ensuring everyone receives a good three hours of informal teaching The theme for this workshop is ‘Creative Apping’ and will be held at the Black and Blue restaurant, 1 Mepham Street, London SE1 8RL from 12.00 pm onwards. To find out more, please go here.
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Photo Education – Accessible Photography through Switch Access in iOS 7
We are delighted to publish the second tutorial to our brand new section within theappwhisperer – Photo Education & Accessibility. There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness (not many people know this, but I personally endure severe hearing loss) to many other challenges people have. These include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. We welcomed Luis Perez to theappwhisperer family as our Photo Education Editor last month. We recently interview Luis in our Day…
