Streets Ahead – 30 Under 30: Women Photographers
Fabulous images and article from LensCulture highlighting Paris-based Photo Boite – now in its fifth year. “Photo Boite has featured 30 women photographers each year who are making work today that deserves worldwide attention. What is it like, then, to be a female photographer, to be a woman who has seized hold of an instrument of which she traditionally remains in front, and to use her eye to view the world, rather than use it to throw back a soft, muted glance into the receiving end of a male gaze? It may sound primitive to talk of the female photographer in such a way, but as the photographers of Photo…
ArtRage for iPad – Temporary Price Drop
Earlier today, we mentioned that the iPhone version of this app is free today (see here), we have just discovered that the iPad version has dropped in price too, it’s not free but instead of $4.99/£2.99 you can pick it up for $2.99/£1.99 today. Click here to download
Streets Ahead – Challenge: Layering – Deadline Today
Just a reminder that today is the deadline to enter our Streets Ahead Challenge on Layering. This is basically the use of reflections – in a building’s glass, a puddle or another shiny object in relation to street photography. We’ve had some great entries as you can see below, these are from left to right – Connie Gardener Rosenthal, Cecily Batey Caceu and Anne-Martine Parent. There’s still time to get your entries in, here’s a recap of the rules: 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…
iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – Dramatic Black & White by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest iOS Photography App tutorial today. This time Jerry has put the very popular app ‘Dramatic Black & White’ by JixiPix through it’s paces. Dramatic Black and White is a hugely popular iOS photography app, we’re sure you will all enjoy this very much. Over to you Jerry, (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Last February I covered an app called Noir, which is a fast, and not very customizable, monochrome app. JixiPix’s Dramatic Black and White, available in separate iPhone and iPad versions, is much more customizable, with a wealth of presets that make good starting places for your conversion to black and white…
Streets Ahead – New Vivian Maier Website
There’s a fabulous brand new Vivian Maier website that has just been launched – it’s called ‘Finding Vivian Maier’ and includes updated dates and locations for film screenings. More information will be added soon. Follow this link to see more. Official Vivian Maier US Trailer
ArtRage for iPhone – Temporarily Free
ArtRage for iPhone is an excellent app to help you express your artistic side, it brings a full on creative experience. Get your fingers dirty with a set of natural painting tools that let you smear, blend, and spread paint directly on the screen. ArtRage simulates real world paints so that you can get creative without having to learn complex tools or digital techniques. ArtRage tracks more than just the color of the paint on your canvas. The application understands the thickness of the paint and how wet it is. This allows the tools to work more like real tools than digital tools. ArtRage supports Layers, transparent overlays that allow…
New iOS Photography App – Handy Photo Free
ADVA Soft today announces Handy Photo Free, a free version of its popular all-in-one photo editing app for iOS and Android devices. Handy Photo Free presents a modified selection of the app’s most powerful features, enabling users to both apply a wide range of edits to their photos and test the effects of the standard edition’s full capabilities. Visit the ADVA Soft booth in the show’s Appalooza section to participate in a one-on-one demo of Handy Photo’s multiple editions. Handy Photo has quickly become a top choice for passionate photo editors, with its global and local tonal and color corrections, smart objects extraction and moving, magic cropping and 100% size…
‘Impossible’ Interview with Penny Felts
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…
Vintage Scene Photography App Now Available for Android
Vintage Scene by JixiPix has long been a very popular app on the iOS system and we’re really pleased to see it port over to Android today. It offers the mobile photographer the opportunity to give their images a retro look, using a unique algorithm which combines, sepia tone, grain, darkened edges, distressed paper all at once. Along with that though, it gives the user control to edit each component for their individual look. Vintage Scene is available at Google Play for £1.19 or equivalent in your country and you can download it here.
iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – TypeA – Adding Text To Images – by David Hayes
We’re delighted to publish this excellent tutorial by David Hayes based on the image text app TypeA. This is a new app and has been designed to enrich your images literally with text. David has put this app through its paces and we think you’ll find this an invaluable tutorial. Over to you David (foreword by Joanne Carter). TypeA retails for $0.99/£0.69 – you can download it here. My first professional job was with a small ad agency that specialized in creating ads for a local community paper. My job was to serve first as a typesetter and once that was done, a paste-up artist. This was back in…
