iPhone 5s Overview – Kevin Carter Reviews For DxO Mark & DPReview
Kevin Carter our Head of Technical Hardware as well as the Lead Technical Editor for DxO Mark and the British Journal of Photography among others, recently as tested the Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone, we mentioned that here. Kevin has also reviewed the Apple iPhone 5s too. Kevin says, ‘With a DxOMark Mobile score of 76 the Apple iPhone 5s ranks in second place to the inspirational Nokia 808 Pureview, and ahead of other notable camera-phones including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the previous iPhone 5, which score 75 and 72 points in our smartphone rankings’. To read more of that review, go here. To read on dpreview including Kevin’s scientific…
Nokia Lumia 1020 Overview – Kevin Carter Reviews For DxO Mark and DPReview
Kevin Carter our Head of Technical Hardware as well as the Lead Technical Editor for DxO Mark and the British Journal of Photography among others, recently as tested the Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone. DPReview use Kevin’s scientific data in their reviews, as they say here, ‘We have added DxOMark’s Mobile Report to our camera review of the Nokia Lumia 1020. The report includes DxO Lab’s usual industry-standard scientific measurements and analyzes 14 aspects of mobile imaging including detailed image quality assessment, flash performance, autofocus reliability and more to calculate a final score’ Take a look at the DxO link here for Kevin’s review and interesting findings regarding the video capabilities.…
HiLO Lens – iOS App – Updated
HiLO Lens is a photography and video app specifically designed to work with the HiLO Lens hardware for iPhone and iPad (available as a separate purchase). The HiLO Lens hardware accessory consists of three glass lenses and a prism which allows the mobile photographer to shoot angles and perspectives that would be difficult under normal circumstances. This app has just been updated, check out What’s New below. This is a free update to a free app. Click here to download/update. What’s New? Continuous shoot mode added! – hold down shutter for 2 seconds – tap “Enable Delayed Shutter” NO – tap “Enable Continuous Shutter” YES Playing nice with iOS7 Stays…
Mobile Photography Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – October 13, 2013
We have just finished curating this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase, our 36th of the year and once again, it is outstanding and full of incredible mobile photography and art. It is a joy to curate and a pleasure to view. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here. With many thanks to our Flickr Group Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: Souichi Furusho, Connie Rosenthal, Elodie Hunting, Sarah Jarrett, Petyr Campos, Federica Corbelli, Karen Divine, Veronica Hassell, Jennifer Bracewell, Amo…
Tickle Your Fancy – #10 – NSFW
Welcome back to our tenth 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… ‘Healing Sgt. Warren’…
Psykosoft releases Psykopaint as standalone Mac App
Psykopaint 1.2.1 is a painting application with a twist, that allows you to paint while the colors are selected automatically based on a photo. Until now the app was accessible exclusively online and now as a fully packaged app for Mac. Psykopaint features 6 different brushes, with 72 built-in presets and so much more. Sporting a complete redesign of the interface, version 1.2.1 introduces support for Retina Display, an improved mad cannon brush, fixes canvas zoom issues and more. The app has been used widely as a tool for art teachers and as an art therapeutic tool. The web version receive more than a million visits per month, created an…
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World Photography Organisation – NEW – Photography book blog by Cheryl Newman
As members and contributors to The World Photography Organisation we were delighted to read Cheryl Newman’s blog this month. Cherly is the Photography Director at Telegraph Magazine. You can read an interview with her, that’s actually quite old here from Professional Photographer magazine, another publication that I used to write for, incidently. In this article Cheryl reviews Vanessa Winship’s latest book ‘She dances on Jackson’ – it’s a fabulous read and this paragraph fulfils me with imagery ‘Winship’s portrait make her subjects feel like beguiling strangers, whether they are the young girl with carrier bags in a barren vacant lot wearing a single string of beads, teenage love birds joined…
RooM by Pocketstock launches: A Commercial Platform For Elite Instagramers
There are plenty of platforms for selling mobile phone images, where there are few or no barriers to entry. It’s not common then, in the fast growing mobile photography world, for a company to come along with a policy that has little interest in the numbers game but a whole lot more in absolute quality. RooM by Pocketstock, we have been told, is much more than a mobile stock photography agency that will just sell images – if they’re accepted in the first place. It’s a platform that’s being developed around promoting mobile photographers to a broadening number of clients who are looking to undertake campaigns using Instagram: any compensation…
Win A Two Day Gold Pass To AppsWorld, London – Worth £995!
As many of you know we’re the Official Media Bloggers for AppsWorld, London, as we were last year too. It promises to be a tremendous event now in its 4th year, Apps World has grown to be the leading global multi-platform event in the app industry. This year’s Earls Court 2 event is set to be the biggest yet with over 250 exhibitors and over 8000+ attendees including developers, mobile marketers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, platform owners and industry professionals registered for two days of high level insight and discussion. With 12 targeted workshop tracks, speed meeting, one-to-one meetings, parties, and awards the event will be tackling a spectrum of issues…
AN INNOVATIVE NEW PLATFORM FOR CREATIVES TO SHARE THEIR WORK IS ON ITS WAY
Creatives, photographers, designers, writers and artists will soon have a brand new platform through which to exhibit their work to a worldwide audience while being paid to do so. VIZN is a totally innovative community that seeks to empower creatives and reward them for their work, turning the traditional agency model and marketplace fee structure on its head. The arrival of the digital age has made it unbelievably easy for artists and writers to share their work with a worldwide audience through the use of blog sites, social media and other such forums. Although this undoubtedly has had a positive effect on the way creatives showcase their work, there has…
