Streets Ahead – Thirty Fifth Edition – Mobile Street Photography
Welcome to the thirty fifth edition of “Streets Ahead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general. So, if…
Camera vs Smartphone – Infographic
Treat.com has created an infographic with the title “Camera vs Smartphone” that has some interesting stats we thought our readers might like to learn about, including Eastern Europe and Russia being the greatest region (74.1%) of top smartphone sales growth in the world. Some of these, perhaps many of these statistics you may well be aware of, including the plummeting global camera shipments, all cameras sales are now at -43%. If you look at the snapshot relating to compact cameras, you will see a sharp decline of sales from 147.5 million units down to 59 million between 2012 – 2014. Of course, this is due to smartphones and the incredible…
Control Samsung’s NX Camera-Bot From Home
Samsung is calling for ideas on where to send its user-controlled camera-bot, the NX Rover, next. Inspired by Mars exploration rovers, the space-like NX Rover has so far travelled over 10,000 miles and taken over 3,000 pictures, all with ordinary people behind the lens, controlling it online. Up to now, people have had the chance to control the photos the robot takes – now they also have the chance to choose where it goes by suggesting their location using hashtag #NXRover. So far Samsung’s NX Camera-Bot has been training with Bayern Munich; been on a fashion shoot in Iceland and hung out with super-heroes at Comic Con. Where the…
Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet, Wi-Fi variant – Available In The US
The Sony Xperia® Z2 Tablet Wi-Fi is now available for pre-sale starting at $499.99 for 16GB and $599.99 for 32GB online at Sony Store, and will be available for purchase at participating Sony Stores on May 4, 2014. Featuring the world’s first 10.1” tablet display with Full HD TRILUMINOS™ and Live Color LED technology2 and X-Reality™ for mobile, the Xperia Z2 Tablet provides bright, true to life colors and sharp images, thanks to Sony’s latest BRAVIA TV technology. Equipped with Sony’s Front Surround™ audio technology, the Xperia Z2 Tablet brings together the most dynamic sound experience with Sony TV technology in a waterproof tablet. For those who want to…
Reflex – Vintage Camera and Pic Editor for Instagram – Temporary Price Drop
Reflex – Vintage Camera and Pic Editor for Instagram is a digital clone of a traditonal reflex camera. It’s a popular app and is currently available with a 50% discount. Usually Reflex – Vintage Camera and Pic Editor for Instagram retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for just $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download. Please note, this app does have in-app purchases – each retail for $0.99/£0.69, or you can purchase eight for $4.99/£2.99.
Flickr App Updated To Include Video Capture
Flickr have unveiled a major update to both their iOS and Android versions of their app. The new design and new features include the ability to capture and edit videos, in combination with applying live filters. Search features have also been overhauled and also due to recent acquisitions on Flickr’s part, searching is faster and there’s a new tagging system that can auto detect objects, colours and scenes. You can also view the full EXIF data of a photo within the app too. We have a wonderful Mobile Movies Column curated and edited by Donna Donato – we’d love for you to take the opportunity of this update, to upload…
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – April 20, 2014
It’s another fantastic week for mobile photography! The images uploaded to our flickr group continue to astound me every single week and remind me that, this is what it is all about – your photography and your art. It’s such a joy to curate, this week we open with fabulous portraiture, through to stunning street work and into gorgeous classic and still life images. Thank you all so much for uploading your images to our flickr group – I look at each image individually, every single one – it’s no mean feat but a very rewarding one. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase,…
Tickle Your Fancy – #33 – Dedicated To All Survivors – NSFW
Welcome back to our thirty third 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 dedicated…
Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 27 – By Donna Donato
Welcome back to the twenty-seventh 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…
Click Serendipity – iOS App Giveaway
The developers of Lumiè and Cine Lumiè have written to us, to tell us about their new app Click Serendipity and to offer promo codes for our loyal readers. Click Serendipity is a new app by Nostalgika in partnership with the blog A Series of Serendipity of the blogger and photographer Melina Souza. Inspired by her unique way to shoot and edit photos with a sweet look at life, Click Serendipity will bring an additional sweetness to all your images. Click Serendipity retails for $1.99/£1.49. If you would like to be in with a chance of a free promo code, please join our ever expanding Twitter followers and Facebook fans,…
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