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Simple Tips To Improve Your Smartphone Photography Game
Introduction Like a constant companion, your smartphone connects you to the web and keeps you updated with events in the outside world. It is one of the first items you grab before you leave the house, and probably the last you touch before you retire to bed. This makes it one of the most essential things in the world today. Apart from this, your smartphone is also a great digital camera. In the past, taking photos with smartphones was a hassle, due to poor image quality. Fast forward to 2021, and you can get sharp images when you apply the right skills. Here are some simple tips you can practice…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase 25 April 2021
“There are so many things that art can’t do. It can’t bring the dead back to life, it can’t mend arguments between friends, or cure AIDS, or halt the pace of climate change. All the same, it does have some extraordinary functions, some odd negotiating ability between people, including people who never meet and yet who infiltrate and enrich each other’s lives. It does have a capacity to create intimacy; it does have a way of healing wounds, and better yet of making it apparent that not all wounds need healing and not all scars are ugly”. A quote from ‘The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone’…
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Apple introduces new iPad Pro featuring breakthrough M1 chip, ultra-fast 5G, and stunning 12.9-inch Liquid Retina XDR display
Apple today announced the most powerful and advanced iPad Pro ever, pushing the limits of what’s possible on iPad. The addition of the Apple-designed M1 chip delivers a massive leap in performance, making iPad Pro the fastest device of its kind. The 12.9-inch iPad Pro features a new Liquid Retina XDR display that brings extreme dynamic range to iPad Pro, offering a stunning visual experience with more true-to-life details to the most demanding HDR workflows. Cellular models with 5G deliver even faster wireless connectivity when on the go, and to provide users with pro-level throughput for high-speed accessories, iPad Pro now includes support for Thunderbolt. Additionally, an all-new Ultra Wide…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 4 April 2021
“The feelings of desperation and unhappinness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappinness stretch your whole sensibility”. A quote by Francis Bacon but one I disagree with. Rufus Wainwright once admitted that he was terrified to settle down into a happy relationship, because without the emotional drama that came from all those dysfunctional love affairs, he was afraid of losing access to ‘that dark lake of pain’ he felt was critical to his music. I disagree that we should all be addicted to suffering, we need to be able to trust pleasure and utilise it to help create art. Too many artists…
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The Amazing Artwork Of Artists With Disabilities
Some of the most famous artists in the world were also dealing with disabilities in everyday life. Vincent Van Gogh had temporal lobe epilepsy; Henri Matisse became a wheelchair user after surgery for cancer; and Michelangelo had osteoarthritis, limiting mobility and causing pain in his hands and feet. Whether they have a physical or mental disability, many artists today are creating beautiful and intricate artwork in the face of adversity. Paul Smith, typewriter artist Paul Smith (1921-2007) had a severe case of cerebral palsy (sometimes known as CP): a group of neurological disorders affecting movement, balance and posture. Around 10,000 children are born with CP every year. Fortunately, cerebral palsy support exists to help parents…
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OnePlus lights up the London night sky with the first-ever ‘Moonbow’ shot on the OnePlus 9 Series
Extremely rare and almost impossible to see with naked eye, the Moonbow phenomenon was recreated by OnePlus to capture the #TrueColors of the full moon, shot on the OnePlus 9 Series
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 28 March 2021
This weeks mobile photography and art showcase features supreme images, ones that unpeel themselves more as we look. The sheer range of these artists’ works exemplifies what we already know, describing these works as spectacular would be true, but an understatment. Enjoy! Thank you to all the talented artists for submitting your works to our showcase this week. If you would like your work to be considered for entry in to our weekly Mobile Photography and Art Flickr Group, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. You can also submit images to our Instagram tag for this section #theappwhisperer. @realityfragments, Eliza Badoiu, csallquist, @hipstanitaelle – Anita Elle, @christineobrienart, Catherine Caddigan, @sengulbekmez, @myfineheartworks,…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 21 March 2021
Marcel Proust describes, In Search of Lost Time, his own experiences of ‘involuntary memories‘, these are profound and unexpected glimpses of the past triggered by mundane and everyday experiences. Escaping time, is in essence the affect of ‘involuntary memories‘, they return us to past events. Photography, is the perfect medium to use as the physical connection to illustrate and explore this. Susan Sontag pronounced that, all photographs are memento mori, to take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. (Sontag, 1979: 15). According to Roland Barthes photographs…
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How to gain more followers on Instagram
Are you trying to brow your brand or business trying to use social media and it’s just not working for you? Has your follower count begun to plateau and you’re not sure how to avoid this or gain more followers? Over the past few years Instagram has become incredibly popular reaching just over 1 billion active monthly users. Starting out, Instagram was a place for you to just post fun little pictures of you and your friends, but now it is so much more than that and is seen as a place to show off the more glamorous part of your lifestyle. Brands and businesses have also now managed to…
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What you should do to get noticed on TikTok
Have you noticed how so many small businesses and brands have been popping up all over your TikTok feed? Are you curious as to how this works? Do you have a new small business and are looking for easier and cheaper ways to market your brand and get noticed? Having only been launched in 2016, TikTok is relatively new to the social media scene, but has managed to find itself possibly the most popular social media platform to date with just over 1 billion active monthly users. TikTok is a short form video platform which allows you to record, edit, and post videos ‘in the moment.’ This means that new…
