Tickle Your Fancy #43
Welcome back to our forty third post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to 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. This week we look incredible firework photographs…
Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 35 – by Donna Donato
Welcome back to the thirty-fifth article in the column, Mobile Movies. We at TheAppWhisperer have been inspired by the Flickr upgrade of 1 Terabyte of storage for everyone and have wanted to launch a mobile movie section for some time. Now seems to be perfect, the new Flickr upgrade will allow for a full three minutes of 1080p HD quality video per single film and you can have as many as you have storage space for. Each week I (you can find me on Flickr here) will curate the movie uploads to our new Flickr group –MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer – I will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the chosen ones. ”The…
Bob Weil iPhoneography Course – Final Day For 50% Discount
This is a complete online course on creating fantastic layered photo art compositions, where you learn not only how to take great photos and edit them into a striking artistic images, but also how to combine multiple images (as well as textures and graphic elements and typography) to create rich, intricate works of art — works you could immediately print to canvas and display. Acclaimed award-winning photographer and artist Bob Weil (and co-author of the sensational book The Art of iPhone Photography: Creating Great Photos and Art on Your iPhone) will take you on a journey unlike any other. You won’t simply learn to run some apps on an image…
Hipstamatic – Brand New ‘The District’ HipstaPak
Not only is it the 4th July but it’s also the First Friday of the Month and at Hipstamatic, that means only one thing – the release of a new HipstaPak. This months HipstaPak is based on a President Roosevelt theme and features the Lincoln Lens – ‘this lens shines like a lucky penny, illuminating your subject with a focussing glow’. There’s also the T. Roosevelt 26 Film – ‘put some fight in your photos with this feisty monotone film, inspired by the 26th president’. This pak retails for $0.99/£0.69 and is waiting patiently for you to download it in your Hipstamatic shopping basket.
Streets Ahead – Challenge 5 – ‘Selfies’ – Showcase
Welcome to the showcase for our fifth challenge ‘Selfies in the style of Vivian Maier’. The objective of these challenges is to help us collectively practice and perhaps learn some new techniques. Each challenge will be based either on a shooting technique or perhaps a theme. We would like Streets Ahead to be and interactive group, and for members to try to participate in the challenges. If you are a woman street photographer, please join our growing community (see links below). With many congratulations to Armineh Hovanesian, Arijana Gurdon, Cara Gallardo Weil, Cecily Batey Caceu, Dani Salvadori, Gina Costa, Liz Traynor,Anne-Martine Parent, Stef Lp, Vanessa Vox, Giulia Baita and Lee Atwell Flickr Group (for weekly showcase submissions) Flickr…
iOS Photography App – LoryStripes – Temporary Price Drop
LoryStripes has earned it’s stripes as a popular and effective app for mobile photography. LoryStripes is from Pixite the same developers for Tangent, Fragment and Union – all equally popular apps. Usually LoryStripes retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for $0.99/£0.69 – download here.
iOS Photography App – Union – Temporary Price Drop
Union is still a new app but it’s already proved itself to be very popular within the mobile photography community. Union is from Pixite the same developers for Tangent, Fragment and LoryStripes – all equally popular apps. Usually Union retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for $0.99/£0.69 – download here.
JixiPix Mobile Photography Contest – Free JixiPix Apps for Life!
JixiPix are the developers of some really great photography apps, including Dramatic Black & White, Moku Hanga, Grungetastic, Portrait Painter and more. They are hosting a Facebook Photo Contest and the winning image that receives the most votes will win all current JixiPix apps for either Mac, Windows or iOS for life. The second place winner will receive two free JixiPix apps of their choice and the third and fourth place winners will receive one app. To enter, just go here, it’s free
Portrait of an Artist Interview with Roger Guetta by Jennifer Bracewell
We are delighted to publish our sixth Portrait of an Artist interview to this very special column, edited by Jennifer Bracewell. This week Jennifer has interviewed Roger Guetta who is not only one of our wonderful Columnists, see here but also a wonderful artist and Professor of Theatre Arts in Montreal, where he has worked for 30 years. Prior to that Roger spent many years in the field running his own theatre, painting and experimenting in photographic techniques. He has also been involved in the film business as screenwriter and producer. His works during that period where shown in both Montreal and Toronto galleries. Over to you Jen, (foreword by…
iOS Photography Tutorial – Mobile Monet by Jerry Jobe
We are delighted to publish our latest iOS Photography Tutorial by Jerry Jobe. This week Jerry puts Mobile Monet through it’s paces, with some amazing results. Don’t miss this, (over to you Jerry). Mobile Monet retails for $0.99/£0.69 and you can download it here “Before we get started on this week’s tutorial, I thought I’d mention that we reached a milestone of sorts with the article last week on Pencil FX (see here). It was the 75th app I’ve covered! Not only am I in no danger of running out of apps, I have many very robust apps requiring multiple articles to cover them thoroughly. No Filterstorm, Leonardo, Photoshop…
