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Tickle Your Fancy #36 – NSFW
Welcome back to our thirty sixth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five 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. 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 way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Powerful Photos…
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Photo Tool Apps – Color Calibrating Your Mobile Screens
We’re delighted to publish this article today to our Photo Tool Apps section by Martin Duerr. When working on professional precision colour work on your mobile device it’s essential for it to be color calibrated, much like a professional monitor. This app allows the images on your iPad, iPhone or Android device to be viewed with a single-color corrected gallery. I’ll let Martin explain more (foreword by Joanne Carter). App Highlights Color correction for iPad, iPhone and some Android mobile devices Personal photo-watermarking feature View all images loaded on iPad/iPhone in one easy to use gallery viewer – no photo importing required Pixel level zooming abilities Requirements Sypder3/4 device Apple…
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Chelsea Matiash – The Wall Street Journal’s Photo Editor – Exclusive Interview with Joanne Carter
‘I view mobile photography as a blessing and a curse’ says Chelsea Matiash, Photo Editor at The Wall Street Journal. ‘I think it really is a testament to how valuable photographs are and how drawn we are to images, people really feel the need to visually record their world’. Matiash speaks to Joanne Carter, at theappwhisperer.com, expressing both her professional and personal views and the impact of smartphone photography and Citizen Journalism upon the industry today. (All images ©Chelsea Matiash and taken with an iPhone) ‘Lower East Side, New York, 2013’ – ©Chelsea Matiash The obsession by many to record literally everything about their lives has led Matiash to…
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Portrait of an Artist Interview with Jessy Menchaca by Jennifer Bracewell
We are delighted to publish our third Portrait of an Artist interview to this very special column, edited by Jennifer Bracewell. This is a really beautiful interview with the wonderfully warm and creative artist Jessy Menchaca, combined with fabulous images too. (We also have a dedicated Facebook group set up for this Column too – please join us here. Jennifer regularly adds and contributes to this. In addition we have set up a Flickr Group dedicated to this column. We would like you to send all your portraiture here and we will select images for curation and showcases as well as commentary – this is the Flickr Group link). Don’t…
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Streets Ahead Interview: Shayna Schulman – Mobile Street Photography
This week, the Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective (Streets Ahead) is pleased and honoured to feature Shayna Schulman in our interview segment. Many of you may know Shayna as ‘WitChiWotcha’ on Flickr. Her street photography frequently catches our attention. She has a wonderful ability to capture moments, especially around the streets of where she currently lives in London. We highly recommend a visit to her various galleries. I have personally met and shared lunch with Shayna in London and she’s a really wonderful gregarious person with a great sense of humour and you will see that being released within her images below. It was a pleasure to spend time with…
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Cinamatic by Hipstamatic – iOS App Giveaway
Fancy a freebie today? Well, if you haven’t picked up Cinamatic yet, the new movie app by Hipstamatic that we announced on Thursday this week then here’s your chance to grab it for free. Hipstamatic’s goal was to create an experience that truly captures the emotion of a moment that a still image just can’t. In their pursuit, they’ve found that just filtering a video clip isn’t enough. It took them three years of working with the idea of recreating the motion picture, to include creative elements like timeline manipulation and transitions, all from your mobile device. We’d really like you all to check out our fabulous Mobile Movies column…
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iOS Photography Tutorial – ‘Tune in and Drop out: Eliminating a plain black or white background’ by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest technical tutorial here today. This week Jerry explains the intricacies of creating composites with your iOS photo editing device, don’t miss this…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “Sooner or later, we all want to create a composite. We want to add one image to another to create something new. Chances are that you only want to add part of one image to another, and we’ve discussed many ways to mask out a background, so that you’re only adding a portion of the top image. There’s masking in iColorama, Superimpose, LayerPic and Background Eraser (among those we’ve covered) and Photoshop Touch, Filterstorm, Leonardo and Handy Photo…
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Cinamatic – New iOS Movie App from Hipstamatic!
Oh yes! Hipstamatic have released a brand new motion movie picture app! When Hipstamatic set out to reinvent photography, they looked at creating a tool that not only captured the pixels, but also captured the emotion of the photographer and the subject. In 2009 they introduced HIPSTAMATIC; focusing on the joy and celebration of analog photography, they created a new experience that inspired the world to fall in love with the square filtered image. Today, as photography has truly become the first and only democratized art medium, they look to the future of video, or as they refer to it, the motion picture. Moving images have been around for nearly…
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Tickle Your Fancy #35
Welcome back to our thirty fifth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five 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. 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 way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Sex, Drugs…
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iOS Photography App – Distressed FX – Temporarily Free
One of the most popular aOS photography apps for adding subtle effects to your images is temporarily free. Usually Distressed FX retails for $0.99/£0.69 – to pick it up for free today, click here.
