Streets Ahead – Challenge 4 – Architecture Deadline April 30, 2014
We’re delighted to publish news of a new challenge to our Streets Ahead Women’s Mobile Photography group. For this challenge we would like you to capture an image that also includes architecture as well as people within the shot. A recap of the rules and procedure for entry: 1. ONE entry only – please do not upload any other images to this group as it has been created specifically for the challenge only. The admins will delete images that are not relevant. 2. Upload your image to the group on flickr that has been created specifically for the challenge entries. http://www.flickr.com/groups/2298376@N24/ 3. Please label your image ‘Challenge 4: Architecture. You…
Click London – Mobile Photography Workshop – Tomorrow – 12 April 2014
We’re delighted to publish news of a new workshop from the wonderful team at Click London. Vivi Hanson Sacredote and Rob Pearson Wright will be hosting a Creative Apping Workshop tomorrow – April 12, 2014 with a small group, consisting of a maximum of eight students, ensuring everyone receives a good three hours of informal teaching The theme for this workshop is ‘Creative Apping’ and will be held at the Black and Blue restaurant, 1 Mepham Street, London SE1 8RL from 12.00 pm onwards. To find out more, please go here.
iOS Photography Apps – ProCam/XL – Temporarily Free Today
Both ProCam and ProCam XL for iPhone and iPad photography capturing and editing are available for free today. Both are popular apps with a host of features. They usually retail for $0.99/£0.69 each. Click whichever version you desire below to download for free today: iPhone/ProCam/download iPad/ProCam XL/download
Samsung Galaxy S5, Gear Fit, Gear 2 & Gear 2 Neo Now Available
Samsung UK today announced that the Galaxy S5 and its new range of wearables devices – which includes the Gear Fit, Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo – are now available to buy from all major retailers in store and online, as well as at Samsung Experience Stores across the UK. The newly launched devices are now on the shelves in 125 countries including the US, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and most Asian markets. Announced in February at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the fifth generation of the Galaxy S series has been eagerly anticipated ever since its unveiling. Superior camera functionality, the ability to download data and…
Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPhone & iPad – Temporary Price Drop
Adobe’s Photoshop Touch for both iPhone and iPad is very popular image editing app. As we mentioned in our review at dpreview back in 2012 – see here – it’s responsive, it’s easy to make selections and there’s good support for layers as well as a wide range of familiar tools and it’s come on a long way since then. Usually Photoshop Touch for iPhone retails for $4.99/£2.99 but today you can pick it up for only $1.99/$1.49. The iPad version usually retails for $9.99/$6.99 but today it’s available for only $4.99/£2.99. Select your desired version below: iPhone/download iPad/download
‘Impossible’ Interview with Ale Di Gangi
We’re delighted to be working closer with The Impossible Project team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and…
Photography Exhibitions In London Over The Easter Period And A Little Beyond…
We’re now on British Summer Time – so much more light – at last! So, if you’re in London or perhaps considering a visit, here’s a round up of some great Photography Exhibitions to see right now! ATLAS Gallery: Collected Works: 20 years in Photography ©David Drebin, Big City Spy, 2013 Open now – 26 April 2014 Collected Works showcases the key photographers and landmark acquisitions from the gallery’s two decades dealing in important vintage and contemporary photography, from early vintage prints by Robert Capa and William Klein, to contemporary works by Paolo Ventura and Nick Brandt. Gallery open Monday – Friday 10am – 6pm, Sat 11am – 5pm Link…
New Carousel Photo App by Dropbox – Designed To Organise Your Images…
Carousel is designed as a gallery for all your photos and videos, it combines the photos in your Dropbox with the photos on your phone, and automatically backs up new ones as you take them. Carousel sorts all these memories by event so you can easily travel back in time to any photo from any date. Carousel isn’t constrained by the space on your phone and this perhaps is Dropbox’s main push for Carousel. Freeing up storage on your smartphone (Carousel is available on both IOS and Android platforms), the company sees this as a more viable solution to automatic syncing of mobile photos. Flickr currently offers 1TB of free…
Streets Ahead – Flo Fox – 10 Minute Video Documentary Full of Inspiration, Life and Love!
Please take a few minutes to watch this 10 minute documentary on acclaimed street photographer Flo Fox. Brooklyn based filmmaker Riley Hooper created this film entitled ‘Flo: Portrait of a Street Photographer’. This is the film’s description – ‘This 10-minute documentary explores the life and work of photographer Flo Fox, who, despite blindness, multiple sclerosis, and lung cancer, continues to shoot the streets of New York City. No longer able to hold a camera, she instructs her aides to take photos for her. She’s an incredible woman with a feisty spirit, sharp wit, and dirty sense of humor’. FLO from Riley Hooper on Vimeo.
Sony Xperia Z2 overview: Revised model takes first place in 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 Sony’s Xperia Z2 smartphone. DPReview use Kevin’s scientific data in their reviews, as they quote Kevin here, ‘The DxOMark team reports the Xperia Z2 images show “impressive detail preservation outdoors” and “in low light, a lot of detail is still visible, even if a loss of details is noticeable compared to outdoors.” Noise levels are reasonable at all light levels, with small grain size and no chroma noise. The autofocus works in a fast and responsive manner, with only very few focus errors. The…
