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iSights – “Underground and Undetected” – A Tutorial – By Janine Graf
We are so delighted to publish this latest post by Janine Graf to her fabulous Column with us, iSights. This time Janine has created an absolutely incredible and fascinating tutorial, using a great image that she captured on her recent trip to New York at the subway/tube. Don’t miss this, it’s such a good read, with a great process and final result. We also decided to create an accompanying screenshow of the steps. Over to you Janine. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). Taking a break from air travel, she decided to catch the C train “Hi everybody! For this month’s column I thought it would be a fun change…
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iSights – Channel Your Inner Colonel Sanders – By Janine Graf
We’re so delighted to publish Janine Graf’s third article to her column iSights. This is another very well written and topical article that we have no doubt you are going to enjoy, a lot and completely relate too. Over to you Janine… (foreword by Joanne Carter). Colonel Sanders had felt the sting of rejection too, in fact, he felt it 1,009 times. Harland David “Colonel” Sanders’ fried chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it. One thousand and nine times! The 1,010th time was the charm. With the much anticipated results of the Mobile Photo Awards recently announced, there has been a variety of emotions…
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iSights – ‘Artistic Inventory’ By Janine Graf
Here it is, Janine Graf’s second article for her new Column with us, iSights. This is another great article in which Janine reflects on her images captured over the past 12 months and considers whether ‘out with the old and in with the new’ is really appropriate when considering your mobile photography portfolio. Over to you Janine. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). Happy New Year!! I hope 2013 greeted all of you with loving open arms, flutes full of champagne and confetti falling from the sky! I admit I was asleep before 10:00 pm on New Year’s Eve so 2013 welcomed me with bed head, morning breath and sheet imprints…
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The App Whisperer – Apped – Updated
Recently I asked a group of incredibly talented mobile photographers/artists if they would app an image of myself. I’ve been so incredibly impressed with their renditions that I’ve created a screenshow below of them all. Their level of work in each image is incredible, these artists really know these apps inside out and have incredible talent and foresight in their work. The original image I gave them was incredibly challenging, low res, noisy, odd angle, I wanted to really see what they could with it. Just take a look at these images and be prepared to be amazed. I was so impressed with them all and I even updated my…
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Richard Gray Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist
We’re delighted to welcome Richard Gray as our new columnist to theappwhisperer.com. Richard is a very qualified mobile photographer and we are very pleased to have him. Richard describes himself as a ‘zealous and eclectic mobile photographer’. His photos have been published by various global publications including The Metro, The Evening Standard and MSN.com. A keen observer of what is good and what is not in the iPhoneography world, he has written extensively for publications around the world and on his blog iphoggy.com. He recently wrote the mobile photography section of The Guardian’s Photography Supplement (due to be published November 17). He teaches a course at The Photographers Gallery and Kensington and Chelsea…
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Serif delivers another Free Affinity update
Serif delivers another Free Affinity update Affinity Photo 2, Affinity Designer 2 and Affinity Publisher 2 have picked up a series of awards and gained rave reviews since launching on Mac, Windows PC and iPad. The release of version 2.2 represents the second major free update since the Affinity V2 launch last November. It comes as Serif works on plans to follow the anniversary with another huge update, which will see its product portfolio take a further ambitious step forward. CEO Ashley Hewson says: “Once again we’re putting out a free update that continues making additions and improvements to some of Affinity’s most popular tools and reinforces the constant optimisation…
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Saturday Poetry – “The world is a beautiful place” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Saturday Poetry -“The world is a beautiful place” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti This week’s Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled “The world is a beautiful place” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, including Poetry as Insurgent Art (New Directions, 2007); Americus, Book I (New Directions, 2004); A Far Rockaway of the Heart (New Directions, 1997); and A Coney Island of the Mind (New Directions, 1958). He has translated the works of a number of poets, including Nicanor Parra, Jacques Prevert, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. In addition to poetry, he is also the author of more than eight plays and three novels, including Little Boy: A Novel (Doubleday, 2019), Love in…
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Major Gift and Donation to Help V&A Secure David Bowie’s Archive
Major Gift and Donation to Help V&A Secure David Bowie’s Archive for the Nation: Over 80,000 Items Spanning Six Decades of the Cultural Icon’s Career to be Made Available to the Public for the First Time David Bowie for the nation – revealing the creative processes of one of the most pioneering and influential figures in the history of live and recorded music, film, fashion, and beyond. From 2025, the archive will be made available to the public, from fans to school children and researchers, through the creation of The David Bowie Centre for the Study of Performing Arts at V&A East Storehouse, in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The…
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ShiftCam ProGrip & ProLens Kit Box Opening
We are delighted to publish our highly accomplished Columnist and Award Winning Mobile Photographer and Artist Rad Drew’s first impressions of the new ShiftCam ProGrip and ProLens Kit Box that has been produced and well engineered with an ergonomically satisfying grip for the iPhone (and other smart phones). The ProGrip Starter Kit comprising of a ProGrip, 1.5m USB-C cable, pouch, hand strap, cold shoe mount and adapter is now available from Amazon and ShiftCam for £129.99/$149.99/€149 in charcoal and ash. ProGrip is designed as a camera-like grip that allows users to securely and comfortably carry and shoot on a mobile phone. ShiftCam, a global mobile photography accessories company, has announced the launch of their latest product, the…
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We’re Donating 25% of Net Proceeds to Charity – Strut Safe
Today, until midnight (GMT) Tuesday 30th November 2021 we are donating 25% of all net proceeds from our online gallery to Strut Safe, a charity dedicated to getting women home safely across the UK. It is an organisation founded by Rachel Chung and Alice Jackson following the murder of Sarah Everard in South London in March 2021. Now with over fifty volunteers across the UK, Strut Safe is able to offer free walks home in Edinburgh, as well as a free phone service for the entire UK. There is much work to be done to dismantle systemic violence against women and other marginalised groups. Strut Safe is an initiative to…