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Mobile Photography Interview With Luis Perez – A Partially Sighted, Apple Distinguished Educator and Mobile Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting interview column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our 105th installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Luis Perez, Luis is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of South Florida in 2013 and is the author of Mobile Learning…
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iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – ‘VinylizeMe’ – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial, this week he puts VinylizeMe through its paces and strikes a beat, don’t miss this. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Time to spin some wax, lay down a groove on the vinyl…OK, I may be showing my age. But if you’re a person who knows that record albums were for more than scratching, then you might get a kick out of VinylizeMe by BlueSpark Studios, an app that turns your images into record album covers. As for the picture below, advertisers were convinced that the average person fanned out their collection on their coffee tables. I would never…
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‘Impossible Interview’ with Sarah Seene An Instant Photographer With A Difference
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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Tickle Your Fancy – #25
Welcome back to our twenty 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… Incredible X-Ray…
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New Sochi HipstaPak Now Available
With the start of the Winter Olympics today in Sochi, Russia today, Hipstamatic have launched a brand new HipstaPak. There’s a new film and lens in this pak, the film named Rasputin is bursting with colour and will warm up many wintry images. The lens YURI 61 has been ‘inspired by the chilling beauty of Russia’ and adds cool contrast. The Sochi HipstaPak is available now in the Hipstamatic marketplace, so head over there and pick it up.
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LensCulture 2014 Portrait Awards Competition – Call For Entries
‘Photographic portraits are part of everyday life in almost all parts of the world. From fine art to spontaneous selfies, from hyper-perfect photoshopped portraits to seductive (and often fictitious) social media profile pics, to mobile phone snaps altered with digital nostalgia filters. Some are candid, some are staged, some are outrageous and silly, others are just plain beautiful’. LensCulture are on a mission to discover a full range of great 21st century photo portraits. They are open to everything. All points of view. All levels of expertise. All corners of the world. All ideas of portraiture. Every photo is reviewed by EVERY judge, so your work will be seen by…
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iOS Photography Tool App – Top Model Release – Temporary Price Drop
Model Releases are an essential element of professional photography and this app, Top Model Release allows you to organise your work without the headache. There are many similar style apps available in the Apple App Store but this one is particularly good as recommended by Scott Kelby and Rick Sammon among others and it has also been approved by Getty Images and iStockPhoto. Top Model Release allows you, as you might expect, to create, edit and process model releases on your iOS device. Once the document has been created and signed, it can be emailed directly to the client too, for record keeping. This particular app is US dedicated in…
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Technical Tutorial – DistressedFX – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to published this wonderful tutorial by Jerry Jobe on the very popular effects app for iOS photography, DistressedFX. This app brings quite a sophisticated look to your art and we’re quite sure you will find this tutorial invaluable. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “There are times when the perfect finishing touch for an image is a bit of grunge. I’ve already covered two grunge apps that make the image look as though the image was taken through a haze of dust, scratches and light leaks – ScratchCam and Mextures. But there’s a different category of grunge that has a more artistic quality. In this…
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iOS Photography App – CameraBag 2 HD – Temporary Price Drop
Another uber popular iOS photography app for your iPad, CameraBag 2 HD features some fabulous high quality styles and adjustments in a very elegant and minimalistic interface. Usually CameraBag 2 HD retails for $3.99/£2.99 but today you can pick it up for only $1.99/£1.49 – click here to download. Video Trailer
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Samsung Launches Search To Find Undiscovered Talent – Including Photography
Samsung is joining forces with the UK’s hottest talent to give people with a passion for food, film, music and photography, the opportunity of a lifetime. ‘Launching People’ will see pop-up chef and Sunday Times cook Gizzi Erskine, award-winning actor and producer Idris Elba, singer-songwriter Paloma Faith and portrait and fashion photographer Rankin, search for undiscovered British and Irish talent. They will act as mentors as they help food lovers, budding film makers, musical game changers and picture takers launch their brilliant ideas. The mentors, together with Samsung will be scouring the length and breadth of the UK and Ireland to find people with extraordinary potential and original ideas. The…
