TheAppWhisperer

Apple Shot on iPhone Challenge – The 2019 Winners – Announced

2019-02-26 by Joanne Carter

iPhone photographers around the world shared their best photos for Apple’s Shot on iPhone Challenge, capturing remarkable moments with the world’s most popular camera. The 10 selected winners will be featured on billboards in select cities, in Apple retail stores and online. The winning shots came from a range of models, from iPhone XS Max to iPhone 7, showcasing the quality of cameras across the line.

The top 10 winners came from countries including Singapore, Germany, Belarus, Israel and the US, highlighting the global community of iPhone photographers that participated. These photos capture colourful city scenery, curious animals, creative reflections, the beauty of the ordinary and more.

The international panel of judges includes Pete Souza, Austin Mann, Annet de Graaf, Luísa Dörr, Chen Man, Phil Schiller, Kaiann Drance, Brooks Kraft, Sebastien Marineau-Mes, Jon McCormack and Arem Duplessis — each one also writes up a little about why they selected the shot.

Many congratulations to all the winners including: Alex Jiang, Robert Glaser, LieAdi Darmawan, Bernard Antolin, Andrew Griswold, Elizabeth Scarrott, Dina Alfasi, Nikita Yarosh, Darren Soh, Blake Marvin and Alex Jiang.

Mobile Photography & Art – Tickle Your Fancy #59

2018-11-172018-11-17 by Joanne Carter

Welcome back to our fifty ninth post in our Tickle Your Fancy section. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between seven to eight links to articles from around TheAppWhisperer over the past few weeks, that you may by chance have missed.

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.

Enjoy!

Mobile Photography Training – ‘The Traveler’s Guide to iPhone Photography’

2018-11-15 by Joanne Carter

I am delighted to promote this brand new course by our friend and regular contributor, Austin Mann. We have featured Mann’s work extensively throughout TheAppWhisperer over the years. He’s a highly accomplished mobile photographer and I can confidently vouch for this new course. It’s designed to ‘unleash your creativity’ and anything that does that, is a huge bonus, in our books.

To find out more or to take this course, please follow this link

Mobile Photography – The New Apple iPad Pro Review for Photographers

2018-11-082018-11-08 by Austin Mann

We’re delighted to publish, Austin Mann’s review of the new Apple iPad Pro from a photographers perspective. Mann is currently working from Iceland on a couple of art commissions and leading a private workshop and he took along the new iPad Pro to integrate it into his mobile workflow. He’s done just that in this article and given us an insight into his new mobile workflow as well as including a few helpful tricks and useful buying advice. Don’t miss this!

To read this alternatively on Mann’s website, please go here.

(foreword by Joanne Carter)

“I’m here working on a couple of art commissions and leading a private workshop and I brought the new iPad Pro along to better understand how it can integrate into the mobile photographer workflow. How does it work to ingest, backup, edit, and share images?

The art installation I’m working on is extremely large format (up to 50 ft. wide), so I’m shooting most of this project with the Hasselblad H6D-100c (a 100-megapixel beast). Needless to say, it’s been a great camera to test the speed of this new iPad Pro”.

Apple iPhone Xs Camera Review

2018-09-192018-09-19 by Austin Mann

We’re delighted to republish our good friend, Austin Mann’s camera review of the Apple iPhone Xs today. He took a trip to Zanzibar, the images are gorgeous. In this review, Mann gives his first impressions, his thoughts on the new Image Signal Processor (ISP), vertical panoramas in the iPhone Xs as compared to the iPhone X, perks and perils of computational photography, the updated Portrait Mode and interesting discoveries with the app, Halide’s new technical readout information. Don’t miss this! (foreword by Joanne Carter).

If you prefer to read the original article on Mann’s own website, just go here.

Far and away the most significant camera update in the iPhone Xs is its new Smart HDR capabilities. Powered by the A12 Bionic chip, in the picture above the iPhone Xs is able to capture the dark shadows of the rock while maintaining strong detail in the sunlit clouds.

I’ve never worked with a camera that can balance light like this—not even close.

See this photo below of the sailboat backlit by the sun. With a traditional camera, we’d either lose total detail in the shadows and maintain the highlights of the sky or we’d blow out the highlights in the sky and maintain detail in the shadows of the boat. Previously we couldn’t capture both in one frame (and merging multiple exposures in a fast moving scene like this wouldn’t work, either).

Mobile Photography & Art – Tickle Your Fancy #58

2017-09-232017-09-23 by Joanne Carter

Welcome back to our fifty eighth post in our Tickle Your Fancy section. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between seven to eight 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. … Read more Mobile Photography & Art – Tickle Your Fancy #58

How To Use The New Portrait Mode on the iPhone 7 Plus by Austin Mann

2016-10-262016-10-26 by Austin Mann

Many thanks to my friend Austin Mann who has granted permission for us to reproduce his article on the new Portrait Mode for the iPhone 7 Plus.

Take a look at these notes by Mann to help you master these great new features.

You can read this article on his site here

The Ultimate Gift Guide for iPhone Photographers by Austin Mann – TheAppWhisperer

2019-09-092014-12-08 by Joanne Carter

Many thanks to my friend Austin Mann, the photographer behind the iPhone 6/Icelandic trip (see here) who has allowed me to republish his ‘Ultimate Gift Guide for iPhone Photographers’. There are so really wonderful items in this list, ones that if you don’t have already, you might want to consider, take a look below…

“One of reasons iPhone photography is so fun is simplicity. No need to pick a lens, choose complex settings or anything else… It’s just you, the iPhone, and the beauty around you.

That said, there are thousands of iPhone accessories hitting the market these days claiming to somehow enhance your iPhone photography. Some of the tools really do — others don’t.

I researched quite a bit and assembled this guide to help you skip over the nonsense and learn about the gear that really can help you (or whomever you are buying a gift for) take iPhone photography to the next level”.

You can also view this list on his site here

Yosemite + iOS 8.1: What Photographers Need To Know – Austin Mann

2014-10-21 by Joanne Carter

Many thanks to my friend Austin Mann, the photographer behind the iPhone 6/Icelandic trip (see here), who has allowed me to republish his latest article full of great tips and ideas for photographers with Yosemite for Mac and iOS 8.1 – don’t miss this.

You can read this article on Travel Photographer, Austin Mann’s website and look around at his other fabulous articles by following this link.

“Apple’s sharing all kinds of software updates with us these days, and a few of them are especially exciting for power user iPhone photographers. Here are my thoughts on how the new features affect how we create and share images with our iPhones.

iPhone 6/+ and iOS 8 Tips From Austin Mann – Photographer From The Icelandic Adventure

2014-10-072014-10-06 by Joanne Carter

Many thanks to my friend Austin Mann, the photographer behind the iPhone 6/Icelandic trip (see here), who has allowed me to published some tips of his from behind the scenes of that video. We have also included a wonderful video with Austin talking about iPhone mounts – don’t miss this.

We hope to publish more of Austin’s tips very soon…

To view Austin’s website, please go here.