iOS Photography Tutorial – ‘Tune in and Drop out: Eliminating a plain black or white background’ by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest technical tutorial here today. This week Jerry explains the intricacies of creating composites with your iOS photo editing device, don’t miss this…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “Sooner or later, we all want to create a composite. We want to add one image to another to create something new. Chances are that you only want to add part of one image to another, and we’ve discussed many ways to mask out a background, so that you’re only adding a portion of the top image. There’s masking in iColorama, Superimpose, LayerPic and Background Eraser (among those we’ve covered) and Photoshop Touch, Filterstorm, Leonardo and Handy Photo…
Cinamatic – New iOS Movie App from Hipstamatic!
Oh yes! Hipstamatic have released a brand new motion movie picture app! When Hipstamatic set out to reinvent photography, they looked at creating a tool that not only captured the pixels, but also captured the emotion of the photographer and the subject. In 2009 they introduced HIPSTAMATIC; focusing on the joy and celebration of analog photography, they created a new experience that inspired the world to fall in love with the square filtered image. Today, as photography has truly become the first and only democratized art medium, they look to the future of video, or as they refer to it, the motion picture. Moving images have been around for nearly…
The Lumen Prize Exhibition – Call For Entries
The Lumen Prize Exhibition, an international prize and global tour for digital fine art, has opened the call for entries for its 2014 prize. The 25 exhibition works, which will be selected by an eminent jury panel of art experts including Bruce Wands, the Founding Chair of BFA Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts, New York City and Doug Dodds, Senior Curator at the V&A, will travel to Cardiff, London, New York City, Athens and Amsterdam. All forms of digitally created art are welcome, and in the past Lumen has exhibited work ranging from photo-montage and manipulation, to iPad drawings, interactive art, web art, digital sculpture, animation…
VSCO Raises $40 Million From Accel Partners
We’ve all heard of VSCO in the mobile photography community, if nothing else for the #VSCO or #VSCOCam on Instagram. Yesterday the company announced a $40 million investment from Accel Partners, a venture firm, renown for its early investment in Facebook. VSCO; which says that it has a community “tens of millions of people” large — is more than just another app maker. VSCO also sells editing software that emulates the effects of classic analog film photography, which the company says has allowed it to be “cash-flow positive since Day 1,” when the company was founded in 2011. The company employs 43 people in Oakland, Calif., who help run the…
Mobile Photography Interview – A Day In The Life of Armineh Hovanesian – An Incredibly Expressive and Creative 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 110th installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Armineh Hovanesian, born in Paris and raised in Tehran and Boston, Hovanesian is a mobile photographer now based in Los Angeles, capturing moments since 2009. She has had no professional training however her vision has been the driving…
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After two successful editions, the Unseen Dummy Award is back! Heikki Kaski’s ‘Tranquility’ was announced as the winner at Unseen 2013, and his book will be presented with a festive launch at Unseen 2014. This is fabulous and I know so many of you are working on your own photo books, I hope you submit your individual books to this. Unseen and Lecturis have designed a photobook dummy award to showcase the work of exceptional photographers and designers from around the world and to give them a chance to realise and publish their photobook dummy. The Unseen Dummy Award will give the winning photographer an entry into the international photography industry. An…
Mobile Photography Interview – A Day In The Life of Amy Leibrand – An Incredibly Talented And Fabulous Photo Manipulator
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 109th installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Amy Leibrand, known online as @_thisspace_, she describes her work as haunting, yet feminine, considering herself a manipulator of images, not a photographer. Her work in digital, film, and mobile genres has gained international attention through exhibits at…
iOS Photography App – Photobooth – Temporarily Free
Photobooth allows you to capture 1950’s vintage photobooth images, without actually being in one. Usually this app for $0.99/£0.69 but you can download it free here today.
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – May 4, 2014
Wow! We have just produced our latest Flickr Group Showcase, the first one for May 2014 and it is incredible! It’s so full of meaning and atmosphere this week, we begin with a fabulous image entitled ‘Glow’ by Bruno Ribeiro and that leads us into incredible imagery, with many of the trials and tribulations of life/relationships played out this week. This is particularly poignant with the portraiture that it leads into and then we view some outstanding travel and street photography, we then move steadfastly into breathtaking painterly images and next we’re greeted and buoyed by beautiful bouquets and individual floral still life images each with subtle lighting, luscious landscapes…
Tickle Your Fancy #35
Welcome back to our thirty fifth 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… Sex, Drugs…
