British Journal of Photography announces the shortlist for this year’s Portrait of Britain Exhibition
The annual Portrait of Britain exhibition will be taking place across the country in September, and today the British Journal of Photography has announced the 200 shortlisted images. The winning 100 images will be announced at the end of August in time for the launch of the exhibition, which opens on the 1st September. Each year Portrait of Britain takes place across JCDecaux’s network of digital screens with 100 portraits of the British public displayed in shopping centres and high streets up and down mainland UK. To view the shortlisted images, please go here.
Tickle Your Fancy – #15 – NSFW
Welcome back to our fifteenth 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… Paris Photo in…
Tickle Your Fancy – #13 – NSFW
Welcome back to our thirteenth 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… ©Shauna:Sean Lee Photo…
Tickle Your Fancy – #9
Welcome back to our ninth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. We launched this nine weeks ago and it’s already becoming very popular. ‘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…
iPhone and iPod: Liquid Damage And The Apple Liquid Sensors
Our Head of Technical Hardware, Kevin Carter, who also happens to be the Lead Technical Editor for DxO Optics (see here – DPreview use this data for their camera/lens reviews), as well as a freelance Editor for the British Journal of Photography amongst many others, is currently taking a look at a select number of ‘waterproof’ smartphones. He forwarded to me an interesting article on Apple’s website regarding their liquid damage warranty. It’s very interesting and something that I wasn’t aware of, although I am sure, as you are all aware that Apple do not give a liquid damage warranty, what you may not be aware of is the way…
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill receives Royal Assent
This is a hugely controversial Bill which became an act of law last week. BJP report, ‘The bill was originally written to eradicate unnecessary bureaucracy but presented a series of provisions, introduced through the back door by the Intellectual Property Office, to allow the use of orphan works, such as images that lack metadata and whose copyright owners cannot be found’. Now, the Bill has not been completely finalised yet, although it has received Royal Assent, the proposed copyright changes have not been approved by the UK government. But, if it is finalised it will effectively mean that the government can introduce controversial regulations. As BJP explain, ‘If introduced and…
We Review iPhone Lenses & Converters In British Journal of Photography Magazine
The latest issue of The British Journal of Photography iOS magazine is now available and within that we have reviewed the Schneider iPro System, Olloclip and the Diff Case system. As our regular readers will know, theappwhisperer.com is the only site edited by professional photo/camera journalists with a wealth of over 25 years experience of the industry. We not only write for our own wonderful site but also for dpreview.com, BJP, The Times, Digital Photographer, Android magazine, MacUser and many many more. When you read theappwhisperer.com you can be confident you are reading the very best. Don’t miss it, it’s a free download – just go here. …
Hipstamatic Developers Plan Launch of Foundation for Photojournalism
The British Journal of Photography, that our one and only Kevin Carter writes for, has run an interesting story relating to the incredibly popular Hipstamatic app. BJP report that ‘Synthetic, maker of the popular Hipstamatic application for iPhone, is expected to launch, later this year, a pack of digital lenses and films dedicated to photojournalists to raise funds for its newly created Hipstamatic Foundation for Photojournalism’. In an interview with BJP in October 2011, Synthetic’s CEO, Lucas Allen Buick, explained: “The idea behind it is to create an educational platform, where professionals will be able give some of their time to educate up-and-coming photographers on how to go into Libya,…
British Journal of Photography – New iPhone App
I am sure you all know by now that we love BJP here at theappwhisperer.com, not least because our in-house technical guru, Kevin Carter, is also the Technical Editor for them too (as well Lens expert for Digital Photographer and Technical Editor for HotShoe magazines). In fact you may not realise that our combination of photographic expertise is really quite staggering. Over the years we have written for Popular Photography & Imagery, MacUser, MacWorld, PcPro, CNet, dpreview.com (of course), NikonPro, The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, Digital Arts, Graphix International, Professional Photography, Which Camera?, Which Digital Camera? and so many more. We have notched several decades of photographic journalism…
Sneak Preview of British Journal of Photography for iPad Issue 3
As all our regular readers will be aware our co-founder/CEO Kevin Carter is also a journalist for BJP so, we are slightly biased that way, but of course that’s not a bad thing as it’s such an excellent magazine. We’ve got hold of a sneak preview of the soon to be released Issue 3 of this best selling photography app. Take a look at the video below. This is a ‘free’ app but you do have to pay for each issue. Take a look here Video
