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Mobile Photography New Year Resolutions From Around The World! Part 2
At the beginning of the year it’s traditional to make a promise to oneself to improve in some way, this could be to improve finances, improve education, improve mental health, improve physical health and so on. We wanted to speak with mobile photographers, mobile artists, mobile hardware manufacturers and mobile photography app developers to find out what their New Year Resolutions for 2014 are. We have communicated with almost 80 people for this article, we would love to include everyone, but we simply can’t, we’d never finish. So please don’t be upset if you’re not in this article, you have not been forgotten, we’re very aware of who you are…
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Tips For Capturing Fireworks For Smartphone Photography by Andy Farrer
Many thanks to the UK PR agency for HTC smartphones for sending through this interesting article for us, just in time to capture fireworks for New Years Eve. Andy Ferror is a professional Landscape Photographer and HTC spokesman and he’s come up with some great tips, read more below… 1) Preparation Find out where the fireworks will launch from and pick a vantage point which gives you a good view. Include any landmarks which will add context, rather than just photographing fireworks against a black sky. Consider wind direction and how crowded your location may get as the display starts. 2) Keeping things steady When you’re photographing in low…
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Technical Tutorial – ‘Fragment’ iOS Photography App by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest technical tutorial, this time on the new and popular app Fragment by the developers of the uber popular app Tangent, amongst others. Jerry has as always created a totally fabulous tutorial to help guide you though. Take a look – we also have some promo codes to giveaway today too! Over to you Jerry and thank you so much…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “So, just after I said that I had wrapped up the look at the apps of Pixite and Ben Guerrette, another one was released. It has all the goodness of Deco Sketch, Tangent, and LoryStripes, and it’s called Fragment.…
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Tickle Your Fancy – #19
Welcome back to our nineteenth 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… Image by Alyssa…
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FiLMiC Classic for iOS Vidoeography – Temporarily Free
FiLMiC Classic is a uniquely configured legacy version of the award winning FiLMiC Pro for older devices such as the iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad2 and iPod Touches. FiLMiC Classic also runs well on iOS 5 which the newest versions of FiLMiC Pro do not. FiLMiC Classic takes movie making to the next level and turns your iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad2 and iPod Touches into some of the most powerful and robust full featured HD video cameras around. FiLMiC Classic offers more control over your mobile video camera any other video camera app, save the now iPhone 4S and iPad 3 only FiLMiC Pro 3.0. This app has everything you need…
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FiLMiC Remote – for iOS Videography – Temporarily Free
FiLMiC Pro is an incredible app and is also on sale today, FiLMiC Remote is the WiFi or Bluetooth way to connect and control your copy of FiLMiC Pro. It allows you to control focus, exposure, white balance, torch, zoom and record operations from a limitless number of iOS devices. Usually FiLMiC Remote retails for $3.99/£2.49 but it’s free today, click here to download. FiLMiC Pro is on sale too, you can pick that up for $3.99/£2.49 instead of the more usual $4.99/£2.99 today. Click here to download that.
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Technical Tutorial – icolorama – ‘Simplifying the Creation of Art’ by Jerry Jobe
Yesterday we published Jerry Jobe’s fifth iColorama tutorial ‘Taking a closer look at the brushes’ – if you missed that, please go here. Today, we’re delighted to publish Jerry’s sixth very comprehensive iColorama tutorial. It’s outstanding, please enjoy, over to you Jerry. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). “It’s been a while since I wrote about iColorama, and this awesome app continues to add new features to get your creative juices flowing. So much is added, as a matter of fact, that it makes it difficult to realize I haven’t covered all of the features that have been present all along. So last week I was messing around and created…
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Fragment – A Fabulous Brand New iOS Photography App From The Developers Of Tangent and LoryStripes
Wow! this app Fragment looks fantastic, it’s a brand new app from the developer Ben Guerrette (Pixite LLC), from Tangent (App Store Best of 2013) and LoryStripes fame. Fragment allows users to transform their photos into stunning, visual artistry using a series of uniquely prismatic overlays. The overlays break up, or “fragment” images into a collage of mesmerizing patterns and shapes that Pixite’s Creative Director Ben Guerrette says, “mirrors the effect of looking through refracted glass, or the facets on a gemstone or prism.” Fragment’s users can take any picture from their photo library, choose how they want to crop it and then manipulate the image by selecting from a…
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Technical Tutorial – iColorama – ‘Taking A Closer Look At The Brushes’ By Jerry Jobe
We’re about to publish Jerry’s sixth iColorama tutorial but before we do that, here is the fifth one and the sixth will follow very closely behind…over to you Jerry – (foreword by Joanne Carter). “About six weeks ago I began the discussion of the Brushes submenu of iColorama with the then-new artist brushes, added with release 3.2. Now there’s been a new release of this great app (3.3), with additions to the 531 existing brush tips, three new HDR presets, a Flow function under the Effects submenu, and Stamped Brushes. Today we’ll take a look at these new Stamped brushes, as well as catch up on the other types…
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Perspective Correct – iOS Photography App – Updated
Perspective Correct is a great app for iPhone photography and we have previously published a tutorial to help you get the most from it. If you missed that, please go here. Today, Perspective Correct is available for less, usually it retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for only $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
