iOS Photography App – Handy Photo – Temporary Price Drop
Handy Photo is literally that and is used by many iOS photographers. It’s packed with a powerful suite of editing tools these include the facility to paint filters onto images and more, it’s incredibly slick. Usually Handy Photo retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
Samsung Announces Stylish Accessories Range For Galaxy S5
Samsung Electronics today unveiled a range of premium accessories to complement its new Galaxy S5 smartphone, on sale in the UK on Friday 11th April. The Samsung S-View cover is back for the Galaxy S5 in a range of five metallic colour options – Black, White, Green, Rose Gold and Pink – complete with a leather-look finish for a more sophisticated effect. The perfect companion for your Galaxy S5, the S-View cover allows you to see notifications of incoming calls and messages, take photos and listen to your music – all without even having to open the cover, so you can keep up with all the goings-on in your life…
Photo Tool Apps – The new SanDisk Wireless Flash Drive
We’re delighted to publish this excellent review by Emanuel Faria to our new Mobile Photo Tool Apps section. Emmanuel has recently purchased the new SanDisk 32 GB wireless flash drive and has been so impressed with it, from a mobile photography point of view, that he wanted to create this article and we’re so pleased that he has, it’s a great help to us all. Over to you Emmanuel (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I recently bought a 32GB Wireless Flash Drive. I’ve been on a quest for a memory add-on, on the move, for my iPhone, able to transfer and receive tons of images. I capture and work…
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – March 23, 2014
We are delighted to publish this weeks Flickr Group Showcase, the creativity that is produced by this medium every single week is completely mesmerizing. This week we lead with street photography, we have received a huge number of sublime images this week and it’s fabulous. We then move into the first signs of Spring that many of us have enjoyed this week, with some beautiful still life and landscape images and finally we have curated the most beautiful and inspiring portraiture. Please enjoy this journey with us and view the world through incredibly enchanting mobile photography… This week we have received more entries than ever to our Flickr Group, we…
Tickle Your Fancy – #30
Welcome back to our thirtieth 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… Fashion Magazine Shoots…
iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – iColorama Masking Revisited by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest iOS Photography App tutorial today. This time Jerry has revisted the iPad app, iColorama and updated a previous tutorial based on masking. We’re sure you’ll all enjoy this very much. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “One year ago I wrote my first tutorial on iColorama. It was on masking, a favorite topic of mine. It’s a step up in your thinking when you first realize that, rather than applying edits to an entire image, it’s possible to edit just part of an image. iColorama’s masking potential already set it apart from other photo/art apps a year ago. In…
X-Rite Launches Free ColorTRUE App – Colour Calibrate your Mobile Device
Thank you to Kevin Carter for bringing this to my attention. Kevin previously reviewed the DataColor app that’s very similar to this for The British Journal of Photography (BJP). ColorTRUE creates a custom display profile for iOS and Android mobile devices using a supported X-Rite measurement device. The user simply places the connected device on the tablet or phone when prompted and the measurement process begins automatically. The profile is applied to all images displayed through the ColorTRUE Image Gallery, providing the user with the most accurate color match to a desktop reference monitor, or other color managed monitors. Steve Rankin, Product Manager, at X-Rite, commented: “While iOS and Android…
Ten commission opportunities offered by FotoDocument with Photoworks
As you will be aware we are expanding at a rate of knots here at theappwhisperer.com to ensure that our readers are fully aware of as many opportunities as possible relating to their photography and art. One of our new areas will bring you details of creative grants and residencies available throughout the world for artists. We previously mentioned Getty Images’ Creative Grants with an Additional Award of $20K for works that focus on enpowering women and girls, if you missed that please go here. Today, we’d like to bring to your attention another wonderful photo opportunity. Photoworks are partnering FotoDocument and BioRegional to commission ten public space photo essays…
reShoot Turns Novices into Savvy Video Storytellers with launch of Free iOS app
Wally World Media, Inc. proudly announces the release of reShoot for iPhone and iPad, a free video app that delivers a comprehensive solution for people looking for a simple but powerful video creation tool. The app centers around two core ideas — mobile video projects should be open-ended, as opposed to collecting bunches of unsorted mini-clips; and quick fixes to videos should be straightforward and painless. reShoot’s “open-ended” feature allows users to return to a reShoot project and add new footage with automatic clip-stitching. This feature allows users to tell longer form stories without needing to splice together bunches of short video clips, after-the-fact. The user-friendly functionality gives even the…
Truth and Memory – British Art of the First World War
This looks like a fabulous exhibition that we have just received details of directly from The Imperial War Museum London (IWP). IWM London presents the largest exhibition of British First World War art for almost 100 years. This major retrospective comprises over 120 artworks and will feature the most iconic images to emerge from the First World War, including paintings by Paul Nash, Percy Wyndham Lewis, CWR Nevinson, Stanley Spencer and William Orpen, as well as lesser known, yet significant works, by artists such as Anna Airy, George Clausen and Gilbert Rogers. This exhibition will run from 19 July 2014 – 8 March 2015 with free admission. Please note, IWM…
