How To Ensure Your Work Is Selected – Instagram Editorial Director Pamela Chen
Here’s a very interesting interview with Pamela Chen the Editorial Director for Instagram with PDN. In this interview Chen explains her role, the community’s objectives, her typical day and of course the criteria that she uses to select Instagram accounts to highlight. ‘Instagram has emerged as a source of income and opportunity for professional photographers, who work for brands and marketers creating images for the platform. Instagram also enables some advanced amateurs to turn pro. Followers are key. Instagramers with high follower counts achieve “influencer” status, which they can sell to brands looking to harness their networks and their understanding of how to engage an audience on the platform. Influence…
iOS Mobile Photography App Tutorial – ‘Stackables’ Part 3 by Jerry Jobe
We are delighted to publish Part 3 of 3 of the mobile photography app tutorials with Stackables by Jerry Jobe, if you missed Part 1 please go here and for Part 2, please go here, (foreword by Joanne Carter). Stackables retails for $1.99/£1.69 and you can download it here.
Pic of the Day (46) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day forty six of our brand new Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @adam__o with the image below entitled ‘Shadows’. Please also check out his Instagram feed, it’s full of inspiring images.
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – Winner Announced – 4 March 2015
Huge congratulations to our APPart Color of the Day with Pantone Daily Challenge winner. Yesterday’s Color of the Day was ‘Rose Tan’ (16-1511) with the adjectives and nouns, ‘Mentally Active, Communicator and Imaginative’. We feel that @sugarama Bobbi McMurry has captured the essence of these with this intriguing image seen below. Today’s ‘Color of the Day’ is Resdea (15-6414) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Spiritual, Private and Productive’. So, we would like to see your creations using this colour in combination with those words, if possible. It’s a challenge after all! To take part in this challenge, please create an image and post it to Instagram and include the hashtag #taw_appart_coloroftheday…
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Reseda’ – TheAppWhisperer
Many of you have already seen our new segment to our APPart column here at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Bobbi McMurry. We would like to inspire all mobile artists to create one image a day using the selected colour of Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ – see here (we will announce the colour each day). As well a ‘Color of the Day’, Pantone also link that colour with adjectives and/or nouns. For your information Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ was originally created by renowned astrologer Michele Bernhardt – you can read more about her here. Today’s ‘Color of the Day’ is Resdea (15-6414) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Spiritual, Private…
National Geographic SmartPhone Photographer Stephen Alvarez
Here’s a very interesting article on the Micosoft Stories blog written by Geoff Carter (no relation) regarding Stephen Alvarez a National Geographic Photographer of over 20 years, who was recently given a new assignment to photograph the Seven Natural Wonders of the World using only Microsoft smartphones. “The equipment’s obviously the most important and the least important thing,” he said. “The most important thing really is how you see. I know photographers that can make a great picture using an oatmeal box, because they see really well.” And Tiina Jaatinen, senior communications manager with Microsoft Devices, was pretty sure she had something better than an oatmeal box. “We knew that…
Photography Competition – Free to Enter – Environmental Photographer of the Year
Now open for entries, the Atkins CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year competition is an international showcase for the very best in environmental photography and film. The competition is free to enter and offers an exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society and a total prize money of £8,000, including awards for young photographers, film and a solo show. The competition provides an opportunity for amateur and professional photographers of all ages to share images of environmental and social issues with international audiences, and to enhance our understanding of the causes, consequences and solutions to climate change and social inequality. For an online entry form please go here
ARTmobile – A New Mobile Photography and Art Book
I am very happy to mention this new book venture on TheAppWhisperer.com. ARTmobile is an editorial project aimed at publishing, the work of eight talented mobile photographers. This is a crowd-funding project, under the direction of ulule.com. Participation as a patron in ARTmobile involves not only acquiring the complete book in Instagram format, 21×21 cm, with over 200 pages of high quality, plus prints for the most enthusiast ones, but it also means encouraging artists to accompany them in their process of creation, in their understanding of the art of photography and their vision of contemporary society. The book will feature works by the following artists: Christina Nørdam Andersen (Copenhagen) Jeanette…
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – Winner Announced – 3 March 2015
Huge congratulations to our APPart Color of the Day with Pantone Daily Challenge winner. Yesterday’s Color of the Day was Bay (12-5507) with the adjectives and nouns, ‘Emotional, Creative, High Ideals’. We feel that @imaginepeacelove1 – Jo Sullivan in collaboration with Ulla Gmeiner has captured the essence of these with this wonderful image seen below. Today’s ‘Color of the Day’ is Rose Tan (16-1511) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Mentally Active, Communicator and Imaginative’. So, we would like to see your creations using this colour in combination with those words, if possible. It’s a challenge after all! To take part in this challenge, please create an image and post it to…
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Rose Tan’ – TheAppWhisperer
Many of you have already seen our new segment to our APPart column here at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Bobbi McMurry. We would like to inspire all mobile artists to create one image a day using the selected colour of Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ – see here (we will announce the colour each day). As well a ‘Color of the Day’, Pantone also link that colour with adjectives and/or nouns. For your information Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ was originally created by renowned astrologer Michele Bernhardt – you can read more about her here. Today’s ‘Color of the Day’ is Rose Tan (16-1511) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Mentally…
