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Apple Shot on iPhone Challenge – The 2019 Winners – Announced
iPhone photographers around the world shared their best photos for Apple’s Shot on iPhone Challenge, capturing remarkable moments with the world’s most popular camera. The 10 selected winners will be featured on billboards in select cities, in Apple retail stores and online. The winning shots came from a range of models, from iPhone XS Max to iPhone 7, showcasing the quality of cameras across the line. The top 10 winners came from countries including Singapore, Germany, Belarus, Israel and the US, highlighting the global community of iPhone photographers that participated. These photos capture colourful city scenery, curious animals, creative reflections, the beauty of the ordinary and more. The international panel…
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Apple Agrees to Compensate Winners of ‘Shot on iPhone Competition’
Many of the Mobile Photographers within TheAppWhisperer community have not only submitted their images to Apple’s ‘Shot on iPhone Competition’ but have also won and their photographs have graced billboards around the world in earlier years. Apple has faced criticism though for not compensating winners, suggesting perhaps that they felt exposure should be enough. However, Apple have now backtracked and will compensate winners with licensing fees. A direct quote from Apple reads: “Apple believes strongly that artists should be compensated for their work. Photographers who shoot the final 10 winning photos will receive a licensing fee for use of such photos on billboards and other Apple marketing channels”. The contest…
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Mobile Photography Training – ‘The Traveler’s Guide to iPhone Photography’
I am delighted to promote this brand new course by our friend and regular contributor, Austin Mann. We have featured Mann’s work extensively throughout TheAppWhisperer over the years. He’s a highly accomplished mobile photographer and I can confidently vouch for this new course. It’s designed to ‘unleash your creativity’ and anything that does that, is a huge bonus, in our books. To find out more or to take this course, please follow this link
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Mobile Photography – The New Apple iPad Pro Review for Photographers
We’re delighted to publish, Austin Mann’s review of the new Apple iPad Pro from a photographers perspective. Mann is currently working from Iceland on a couple of art commissions and leading a private workshop and he took along the new iPad Pro to integrate it into his mobile workflow. He’s done just that in this article and given us an insight into his new mobile workflow as well as including a few helpful tricks and useful buying advice. Don’t miss this! To read this alternatively on Mann’s website, please go here. (foreword by Joanne Carter) “I’m here working on a couple of art commissions and leading a private workshop and…
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Apple iPhone XR Camera Review
We’re delighted to publish, Austin Mann’s camera review of the new iPhone XR. Mann traveled with his beautiful wife, Ester through Grand Canyon NP, Petrified Forest NP and White Sands National Monument in a cool Airstream for this test. “With the beautiful new LCD display, Smart HDR, and Single Lens Portrait Mode, there’s been a lot to test. My main questions about iPhone XR: How are the portraits? How’s the screen? How’s the battery?”, he said. Questions that we want answers to too! Read on to find out…. To read this alternatively on Mann’s website, please go here.
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Apple iPhone Xs Camera Review
We’re delighted to republish our good friend, Austin Mann’s camera review of the Apple iPhone Xs today. He took a trip to Zanzibar, the images are gorgeous. In this review, Mann gives his first impressions, his thoughts on the new Image Signal Processor (ISP), vertical panoramas in the iPhone Xs as compared to the iPhone X, perks and perils of computational photography, the updated Portrait Mode and interesting discoveries with the app, Halide’s new technical readout information. Don’t miss this! (foreword by Joanne Carter). If you prefer to read the original article on Mann’s own website, just go here. Far and away the most significant camera update in the iPhone…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Tickle Your Fancy #58
Welcome back to our fifty eighth post in our Tickle Your Fancy section. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between seven to eight links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. This week, we have focused primarily on links within our own website, not only purely our links but ones that we have linked out to. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic…
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iPhone 8 Plus Camera Review in India
Many thanks to my dear friend Austin Mann who has granted permission for me to reproduce this article ‘iPhone 8 Plus Camera Review in India’, here on TheAppWhisperer.com, the most popular mobile photography and art website in the world. To read this article on Austin’s site, please go here. (All photos ©Austin Mann) “I’m writing to you from a small hotel room in India having just experienced a magical adventure in western India orchestrated by friends at Ker & Downey. I’ve shot thousands of images and countless portraits with the iPhone 8 Plus and I’m excited to share what I’ve learned. While the iPhone 8 Plus looks essentially the same as the…
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Ultimate Hardware Gift Guide for Mobile Photographers / Videographers / Artists with Sales This Weekend
As well as the mobile photography /video / art apps that we just mentioned that are on sale this weekend (see here), there are also some good bargains to be had in the hardware department. We have listed some of the best deals below, take a look:
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iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus Extensive Camera Review – In Iceland
With the excitement growing and many of you getting your hands on the Apple iPhone 6 Plus for the very first time today, we thought you would be interested in reading and watching this interesting video, putting the iPhone 6 Plus camera to the test, in Iceland. Travel Photographer Austin Mann partnered with Apple and The Verge on the night of the Keynote and took the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 5s on a mission, to discover what the new devices mean for us, the photographers. The images from this trip are outstanding, the Focus Pixels helped with the poor light. Mann also joined the Icelandic Coast Guard…