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Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 33 – by Donna Donato
Welcome back to the thirty-third 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…
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iOS Photography App – HarrisCamera – Temporary Price Drop
HarrisCamera allows you to recreate the Harris shutter effect to your digital images. To give you a bit of background, the Harris Shutter effect was created by Robert Harris of Kodak. The effect was originally created by re-exposing the same piece of film 3 times through 3 different colored filters while keeping the camera steady. The three colors used were red, blue and green (the colors of the spectrum) and in the areas where no movement takes place, those 3 colors combine to reproduce the original color. With the advent of HarrisCamera for iOS photography the whole thing can be done very simply. Why not give it a try this…
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iOS Photography App – Perfectly Clear – Photo Correction (Automatic) – Temporarily Reduced
Perfectly Clear – Photo Correction (Automatic) is available for only $0.99/£0.69 this weekend, down from $2.99/£1.99. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to pick up one of the best photo editing and capturing apps in the business. Click here to download.
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iOS Photography/Art App – iColorama S – Price Reduced Today
iColorama S is a hugely popular app for your iPhone, there’s also an iPad version – iColorama, minus the S. This is a fabulous app to help you enhance your images and produces excellent results. iColorama usually retails for $2.99/£1.99 but today you can pick it up for only $1.99/£1.49. Click here to download.
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Samsung Galaxy S5 overview: Joint leader in DxOMark Mobile rankings – Kevin Carter
Kevin Carter our Head of Technical Hardware as well as the Lead Technical Editor for DxOMark and the British Journal of Photography among others, recently tested Samsung’s Galaxy S5 smartphone. DPReview use Kevin’s scientific data in their reviews, as they quote Kevin here, “The DxOMark team reports that the Galaxy S5 images show “good auto-exposure, pleasant, rich and realistic colors, good white balance, low noise levels in low light conditions and good sharpness and details in the center of the frame. ” The testers found “almost no color fringing or ringing” and liked the “good image quality with flash.” On the downside there is “a noticeable loss of detail in…
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iOS Photography – JixiPix App Giveaway
JixiPix are wonderful developers and publishers of many successful iOS Photography apps, including Dramatic Black & White, Portrait Painter, PhotoArtistaHD, Grungetastic and more. They have an offer on their special Facebook page where you win an app by liking their page and supplying your name and email address. Take a look here – closing date is 30 June 2014.
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SAMSUNG AND MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE GLOBAL BRAND PARTNERSHIP
Samsung Electronics and Marvel Entertainment today announced a new global partnership. Through a multi-medium creative campaign across film, digital and product, Marvel and Samsung will integrate their brands in unique and creative ways to bring their collective audiences together and showcase the best from both brands. The partnership will merge the worlds of both brands, highlighting Samsung’s technology and Marvel’s visual storytelling to offer unrivalled access to exclusive content and experiences. “Samsung is passionate about the stories around our products and the people that use them,” said Younghee Lee, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing, Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics. “Partnering with Marvel gives us the opportunity to bring…
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Samsung Announces Galaxy Tab S
Samsung Electronics has today announced the Galaxy Tab S, Samsung’s thinnest and lightest tablet to date. This Super AMOLED tablet combines the most advanced display technology with a full range of premium content for an unrivalled entertainment experience. The Galaxy Tab S is also powered with enhanced productivity features for effortless multitasking, all elegantly housed in a stylish, yet practical design. “The tablet is becoming a popular personal viewing device for enjoying content, which makes the quality of the display a critical feature,” said JK Shin, CEO and President of IT & Mobile Division, Samsung Electronics. “With the launch of the Galaxy Tab S, Samsung is setting the industry…
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Alternative Processes – The Center for Fine Art Photography – Call For Entries Competition
As our regular readers will know, we have been looking at alternative post processing of mobile images for sometime. We have a Flickr group dedicated to this and we will be publishing tutorials and additional information soon to help you make hard copies of your mobile images using alternative processes. We have published several articles already to our new section, see here. We have today discovered a wonderful new competition from The Center for Fine Art Photography. The entry date for this competition is July 2, 2014 and it will run until July 15, 2014. All subject matter and alternative processes are welcome, including Daguerreotypes, Cyanotypes, Chrysotypes, Chlorophyll Process, Chemigrams,…
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Introduction To Mobile Macro Photography by MaryJane Sarvis
We are so thrilled to publish this Introduction to Mobile Macro Photography by MaryJane Sarvis. In this article MaryJane indulges us with seductive and captivating floral macro images and she guides us through the creation process with her wonderful conversational style tutorial. We are sure you will be enticed by this article to experiment with mobile macro photography yourselves and we would love to see your results! Make sure you upload them to our main Flickr Group for curation (link). “Macro photography can become quite addictive. I find the urge to run and put on my olloclip to shoot almost every plant that I see. Actually, getting an image…