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The App Whisperer – Flickr Group Showcase – July 14, 2013
We have put together another very special Flickr group showcase , our twenty fourth of 2013 with some of our favorite images and some great new talent that have been uploaded to our Flickr group – Mobile Photography & Imagery, this week. The quality of submissions continues to rise, so we have decided to make our showcases that much bigger to incorporate as much of this stunning mobile art and photography as we can and to get it out to a wider audience. With many thanks to our Flickr Group Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: Nettie Edwards,…
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Jerry Jobe Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist
We’re really delighted to welcome Jerry Jobe as a new Columnist to theappwhisperer.com. We have been impressed with Jerry’s technical video tutorials and we have published those here, incase you’ve missed them. Jerry will be working alongside our Head of Technical Tutorials David Hayes, this will allow us to increase our quantity of stunning technical photo app tutorials that we know you all so value and hold in such high esteem. In Jerry’s own words: “Never content with just scratching the surface of what an app can do, Jerry Jobe decided to pass on what he learned about imaging apps to others. He’s constantly trying to figure out just what…
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Technical Tutorial – Getting Creative – Etchings and Snapseed
We are delighted to publish the fourth of many tutorials that we’re planning with the app, Etchings. In this tutorial, our Head of Technical Tutorials, David Hayes, mixes Etchings with another popular app, Snapseed, with some very interesting results. Don’t miss this (foreword by Joanne Carter). Over to you David… With the coming of summer images of flowers abound everywhere you look. And why not? Flowers make for very cooperative and beautiful models to work with. Just look at my photo streams on Flickr, EyeEm and 500px …flowers!! Combine such fantastic source material with two of favorite apps, Etchings and Snapseed is bound to produce an interesting image. In…
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ProCam – Updated
ProCam is an app that we have looked at extensively here at theappwhisperer – our Head of Technical Tutorials – David Hayes has written some fabulous and comprehensive tutorials, if you have missed those, please go here. ProCam has just received a brand new update and includes some great new features including a completely revamped photo viewer with thumbnail view and support for pinch zoom and auto orientation rotation. Instagram sharing has also been added – we have listed all the new updated features below. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69. What’s…
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Instagram Gets Movie Mode
If you needed even more reason to join our brand new Mobile Movies flickr group, then you just got it – Facebook held a press event yesterday afternoon announcing the addition of video recording and of course sharing to Instagram. So now, not only can you share photos but also 15 second ‘movies’/clips if you like, too. The update is in the app store and is available for both iOS and Android versions – we suggest you update/download the app, make some cool movies and then upload them to our Mobile Movies flickr group, which is curated every Saturday by Donna Donato and featured on our main site, see here.…
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NEM/The Hungry Ghost – ‘Void’ Competition
NEM and The Hungry Ghost Facebook group are running a new competition. They have invited artists to create artwork that depicts the term ‘Void’. Sixteen artists’ works have now been selected and they are now involved in a vote with the public. After one week the top three will be determined and each with have a t-shirt printed of their image as a prize, in addition these three will also have T-shirts produced and auctioned off for charity. You can find out more about this competition here. The Final 16 Nominated Judges Andrea Koerner, Brett Chenoweth, Grant Horsnell, Benamon Tame, David Hayes, Andrea Bigiarini and Steve Cooper have deliberated…
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The App Whisperer – Flickr Group Showcase – June 2, 2013
We have put together another very special Flickr group showcase , our ninetheenth of 2013 with some of our favorite images and some great new talent that have been uploaded to our Flickr group – Mobile Photography & Imagery, this week. The quality of submissions continues to rise, so we have decided to make our showcases that much bigger to incorporate as much of this stunning mobile art and photography as we can and to get it out to a wider audience. Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: Janine Graf, Sarah Jarrett, Mark T Simmons, Lee Thatcher, Jennifer Bracewell, Rhonda Forsberg, ari_55,…
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Donna Donato Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist For Our New Mobile Movie Section
We’re really delighted to welcome Donna Donato as a new Columnist to theappwhisperer.com. We previously interviewed Donna in both our A Day In the Life and Extension of the I series of interviews. Donna is an image-maker, historian by training and a film/video editor by vocation. From a very early age she was smitten with images of all kinds. Donna absolutely loves film and filmmaking. Currently she lives in Paris, a city that has had a long and passionate love affair with ‘the movies’ and is one of the crossroads for world cinema. Donna is going to be running our new and unique Mobile Movie Column. We have been inspired…
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‘Streets Ahead’ – Brand New Women’s Street Photography Column By JQ Gaines and Maddy McCoy
We are incredibly excited to announce that JQ Gaines and Maddy McCoy have joined The App Whisperer with a brand new Column entitled ‘Streets Ahead’. JQ Gaines already contributes to Parallel ll Perspectives with Catherine Restivo but this Column is very different and unique, as indeed they are all. The story behind the creation and concept of ‘Streets Ahead’ is an interesting one. One cold February night in 2013, Maddy McCoy and JQ Gaines found themselves walking up 8th Avenue (in NYC), engaged in an animated conversation that centered around a shared belief that women street photographers are under represented in the mobile photography community. Street photography has long been…
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Technical Tutorial – Snapseed & Etchings – Combined
We are delighted to publish the third of many tutorials that we’re planning with the app, Etchings. In this tutorial, our Head of Technical Tutorials, David Hayes, mixes Etchings with another popular app, Snapseed, with some very interesting results. Don’t miss this (foreword by Joanne Carter). Over to you David… “In my past Etchings tutorials, I’ve focused on what you could do with the different aspects of this great app. This time I combined Etchings with another app, Snapseed and would like to share what came from this partnership! If you would like to purchase Etchings and/or Snapseed the links are below: Etchings Snapseed Let’s start with the…





















