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StreetVIEW – The Secret Life of Things – By Laura Peischl
We’re delighted to publish Laura Peischl’s latest article to her StreetVIEW Column. Below you will find text by Laura describing the atmosphere as she meanders a local street market one Saturday morning. Beneath that you will find her fabulous still captures. We have put these together into a video showcase with music of Laura’s choosing to bring you the complete picture of her experience. This is not to be missed – over to you Laura (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Strolling through the flea market on a Saturday at an early morning, means for a photographer, first of all observing. There are so many layers of interaction, so many…
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iOS Photography App – PhotoMotion – Updated
Yesterday we published a great introductory tutorial by David Hayes relating to PhotoMotion and to help you gain the most from this new app, if you missed that, please go here. The developers EastCoastPixels have just updated this app and added support for adjusting photo duration timing for all photos and individual photos. A control to enable the video end fade optional has also been included. There’s also been a few user issues fixed. This is a free update, if you have previuosly purchased this app. If not, you can pick it up here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69.
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‘Impossible’ Interview With Agafia Polynchuk
We’re delighted to be working closer with The Impossible Project team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and…
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Sony Xperia Z2, Xperia Z2 Tablet, Xperia M2, SmartBand SWR10 – All New Products From Mobile World Congress
24 February 2014, Mobile World Congress, Barcelona – Building on the successes of last year, Kunimasa Suzuki, President and CEO of Sony Mobile Communications forecasts 2014 to be transformational: bigger, bolder and better. “Entertainment is in Sony’s spirit. We believe there’s a distinct difference between having, and feeling experiences,” said Kunimasa Suzuki, President and CEO, Sony Mobile Communications. “This remains true within everything we do – for us, 2014 is about bringing the best Sony technology and content together, and taking it further to create absolutely unprecedented, evocative and unique user experiences.” Xperia Z2 – The world’s best camera and camcorder in a waterproof smartphone The beacon of Sony’s…
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Nokia welcomes Android developers – TheAppWhisperer
Today at Mobile World Congress, Nokia unveiled five new affordable handsets including a new family of smartphones debuting on the Nokia X software platform. Based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), and backed by Nokia’s deep ties with operators, the Nokia X platform gives Android(TM) developers the chance to tap into, and profit from, a rapidly expanding part of the market. The launch builds on Nokia’s leadership in delivering innovation to more price points with its family of Lumia smartphones, and the latest momentum for Windows Phone. “Today Windows Phone is the fastest growing mobile ecosystem in the world, and we continue to see incredible momentum with our Lumia…
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Exclusive Nokia Lumia Imaging Technology Brings Light Painting to Smartphones and the Masses
The evolution of digital photography has driven a fresh rise in the art of light painting, with the tools to capture and share these unique images becoming increasingly accessible. That goes one step further today with the latest work from leading light artists Ian Hobson of Newcastle, UK and Jeremy Jackson from Virginia, USA demonstrating how people can make stunning light art using a Nokia Lumia smartphone. Armed with a Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone, the artists have created a series of images and guide which are intended to inspire a new generation of smartphone light painters. All made possible by the exclusive 4 second shutter delay and superior low light…
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Photo Tool Apps – Taking A Look At Workflow For Mobile Photographers with Martin Duerr
We are delighted to publish this very interesting article by our Photo Tool App Editor, Martin Duerr. Our Photo Tool App section is brand new and one that we feel is incredibly important. This section is designed to essentially help you operate and utilize your DSLR’s, mirrorless and medium/large format cameras with specialised apps, as well as utilise your mobile photography workflow regardless of whichever platform you use. You can read more about our new Photo Tool Apps section here. In this article Martin offers some great advice for utilising your mobile photography workflow with your Nokia Windows phone as well as Apple iOS system. He recommends some great apps…
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iOS Photography App – Waterlogue – Temporary Price Drop
Waterlogue was released in December 2013 and quickly rose to the number 1 spot in Japan and number 2 in the US app store. Over 150k copies have been downloaded so far. “The idea behind Waterlogue is that we wanted non-artists to be able to see the world as an artist might—to give people access to a creative tool that doesn’t require any training,” says Balestrieri, founder of Tinrocket, LLC. “We were inspired by what creative people like artists and architects carry with them for visually documenting the world when on-the-go: things like Moleskine watercolor sketchbooks and these little homemade kits of watercolor pigments stowed inside repurposed Altoids tins. The…
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Blind Mobile Photography with the Apple iPhone – Photo Education & Accessibility Tutorial
We are delighted to publish the first tutorial to our brand new section within theappwhisperer – Photo Education & Accessibility. There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness (not many people know this, but I personally endure severe hearing loss) to many other difficulties that people suffer with, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. We are therefore delighted to welcome Luis Perez to theappwhisperer family as our Photo Education Editor. We recently interview…
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StreetVIEW – ‘Eating and Drinking in Vienna’ by Laura Peischl
We’re delighted to publish Laura Peischl’s latest article to her StreetVIEW Column. This time Laura walks the streets of Vienna, poised to capture the decisive and poignant moments of people within their natural environment. At the end of the still images you will find a video of them altogether – hope you enjoy this. Over to you Laura… (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I came to Vienna for 10 days in January and I am still here since over one month…. so now I am kind of artistically cheating on my beloved Valletta. 🙂 Walking the streets of the city I tried to capture for this column, people engaged…
