Photo Competition – Photographer of Style – Instagram competition
To celebrate this autumn’s V&A exhibition “Horst: Photographer of Style”, The Telegraph newspaper want you to take inspiration from Horst’s iconic photos, become a Horst muse or recreate the composition, light and elegance of the master photographer. Simply upload your photo to Instagram with the hashtag #MyHorstPhoto for your chance to win return tickets to Paris, exclusive bespoke framing of your winning photo and other exhibition goodies. Need some inspiration? Browse the V&A’s dedicated Horst Pinterest board, their online picture gallery or visit the exhibition from 6 September 2014. How it Works Follow @vamuseum and @telegraphtelephoto on Instagram. Take a Horst inspired photo and upload to Instagram with the hashtag…
Hyperlapse from Instagram – New!
Today, Instagram have introduced Hyperlapse, a new app to capture high-quality time lapse videos even while in motion. Traditionally, time lapse videos depend on holding your phone or camera still while you film. Hyperlapse from Instagram features built-in stabilization technology that lets you create moving, handheld time lapses that result in a cinematic look, quality and feel—a feat that has previously only been possible with expensive equipment. Hyperlapse is ultra simple to use, open up straight to the camera. Tap once to begin recording and tap again to stop. Choose a playback speed that you like between 1x-12x and tap the green check mark to save it to your camera…
Instagram – Overcoming Shyness with Margot Breby
Parisian Instagrammer Margot Breby (@margotbreby) has emerged from her shell, ‘I am very shy and fashion is a good way to express myself, growing up I wanted to become a stylist and I drew outfits I dreamed of wearing’ she said Margot’s serene, light-soaked Instagram photos have also helped with her shyness. “It brought wonderful people into my life,” she says. “People who became true friends. I never imagined that when I began a year ago.” Margot’s inspiration comes from eclectic sources, many of whom share her whimsical outlook. “I really love Sofia Coppola’s and Wes Anderson’s movies and Tim Walker’s photography,” she says. “I am also very inspired by…
Instagram – Chicago South Side – Stories from Jon Lowenstein
Jon Lowenstein (@jonlowenstein) is a photographer that I much admire. Fifteen years ago he started an assignment based around Chicago’s South Side. As a new resident, he started photographing the community with an SX-70 and 4×5 cameras, leaving Polaroid images with his neighbours, he became known as the ‘Photoman’. He transformed vacant apartments within his housing complex into community exhibition spaces called “The Island”, and taught photography classes at a local elementary school. “When I started the project on the South Side, analog was the only way to go. Nowadays so many people in the ‘hood use Instagram that it is a real way to communicate on a local level,…
Streets Ahead Interview: Dani Salvadori – Mobile Street Photography
This week, the Women’s Street Photography Collective (Streets Ahead) is pleased and honored to feature Dani Salvadori in our interview segment. Her street photography varies from urban city scenes to beach life. As a keen observer of people, Dani has been able to capture the interaction – people’s behaviour and how they relate to each other and the environment that they are in. She lives in London, but also spends a lot of time in Scarborough, in North Yorkshire. I highly recommend a visit to her galleries. Dani can be found @danisalvadori on Flickr and Instagram. Dani Salvadori ©Dani Salvadori Please tell us a little bit about yourself and…
Instagram Introduces New Creative Tools
Instagram have brought a set of new creative tools to Instagram with the ability to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth and more. When you select a filter, you’ll now see a new wrench icon. Tap it and you’ll find a tray of photo editing tools ready for you to explore. You can also adjust how much of a filter you apply to a photo by double tapping the filter icon. Instagram for iOS version 6.0 is now available in Apple’s App Store, and Instagram for Android version 6.0 is available on Google Play.
Mobile Photography Interview – A Day In The Life Of Allie Astell – An Inspirational and Talented 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 115th installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Allie Astell born in Morocco to a Syrian mother and English father. As a child, she travelled much of the world with her parents, as her Dad was a diplomat with the Foreign Office. Astell’s web consultancy business…
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Tickle Your Fancy – #34 – Poignant Moments From Around The World – Seen Via Instagram
Welcome back to our thirty fourth 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, we have have…
Tweeted Photos Printed at Walgreens or Delivered Direct from iPhone – We have Coupon Codes To Giveaway!
Leading photo printing app, Printicular, unveils a new way to print tweeted photos. The free app allows effortless printing of phone, Facebook, Instagram and now Twitter photos. Users can print their chosen photos direct from their iPhone or iPad to their local Walgreens or have them home delivered worldwide by Printicular. “Printicular lets you print your photos from wherever you store them, now including Twitter,” says MEA Mobile’s Managing Director Bruce Seymour “and by searching Twitter, users can print the photos of any Twitter user.” Printicular is also newly debuted on Windows Phone 8 and prints Facebook, Instagram and camera photos at Walgreens. The app is now available on every…
Pixol for iPhone – App Giveaway!
Pixol launched today, essentially it’s a photographic puzzle game allowing you to play on Instagram with up to 25 players and 120 images. This is a developing app and we’re sure it will grow considerably. Twenty five photographers have already contributed images to create these puzzles, many of these artists are known to us, including Geri Centonza (@gericentonza) and Mextures developer Merek Davis (@merekdavis) for example. We’ll be publishing a review of this app very soon. In the meantime, if you would like to receive a promo code and start playing, then join our ever expanding Twitter followers and Facebook fans, RETWEET THIS POST and send a reply to the…
