2014 Sony World Photography Awards Judge, Ruth Eichorn, Shares What She’s Looking For In This Year’s Competition
You have seen the call for entries to the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards but how can you make sure yours is the photograph that the judges choose? WPO gives you an exclusive insight into the thoughts of our 2014 Honorary Jury members and exactly what they are looking for in an award-winning image. This week, WPO interviews jury member Ruth Eichorn, Director of Photography, Geo. You have sat on many high profile photographic judging panels. In your opinion, what makes an award-winning image? What key elements will you look for in the entries to the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards? At the Sony World Photography Awards there are more…
Adobe Updates Photoshop Elements 12 & Adobe Premiere Elements 12
Adobe today announced the availability of Adobe® Photoshop Elements 12 and Adobe Premiere Elements 12. Customers will enjoy powerful mobile capabilities, and reap the benefits of professional-grade editing technology delivered in an intuitive experience that makes it easy to create stunning results. “Our customers have a lot of photos and videos, and they love to use their home computers to organise them and be creative, but they also want the freedom and flexibility to view, edit and share on their mobile devices,” said Lea Hickman, vice president, products, Creative Consumer Business, Adobe. “Photoshop Elements 12 and Premiere Elements 12 will provide customers with the best of both worlds, quickly, easily…
Tangent 1.2 now includes Neal Dieker’s NDPATTERNS
The photo app development team at Pixite LLC, in partnership with award-winning creative technologist Ben Guerrette, is excited to announce the addition of ND Patterns + Shapes pack by photographer and designer Neal Dieker in Tangent 1.2 for the iPhone and iPad. The pack is based on NDPATTERNS, the downloadable pattern overlays by Neal Dieker widely used by photographers and artists to create stunning effects on photos. NDPATTERNS overlays have been downloaded over 100,000 times and used in over 75,000 images on Instagram. Users now can directly apply NDPATTERNS overlays using the ND Patterns + Shapes pack inside Tangent 1.2, a creative tool that lets anyone easily transform their photos…
Apple Updates iMac
Apple today updated iMac with fourth generation Intel quad-core processors, new graphics, next generation Wi-Fi and faster PCIe flash storage options. The updated iMac brings the latest technology to the stunningly thin design and gorgeous display of the world’s leading all-in-one desktop. “iMac continues to be the example that proves how beautiful, fast and fun a desktop computer can be,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “Inside its ultra-thin aluminium enclosure, the new iMac has the latest Intel processors, faster graphics, next generation 802.11ac Wi-Fi and faster PCIe flash storage.” The entry-level 21.5-inch iMac features a 2.7 GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 processor and new Iris…
Mobile Photography – Tip Of The Day – Number 35
Welcome to another brand new section from your favourite mobile photography website and one of the most popular in the world. Today, we’re publishing our 35th Mobile Photography/Art Tip Of The Day to our brand new section of the site. Every day we will publish a short quick tip to help you with your mobile photography, this may be related to editing your image, capturing your image, printing your image, all manner of things, across the complete photographic and art mobile genre – we’ll be featuring great mobile street photography tips, great blending tips, great cloning tips, we will cover it all from some of the greatest mobile photographers and…
Our Daily App Giveaway – Diptic PDQ
Today we’ve teamed up with the developers of the brand new app, Diptic PDQ. Peak Systems also produce the popular collaging app, Diptic. Diptic PDQ normally retails for $0.99/£0.69 but if you would like to try it for free, just join our ever expanding Twitter followers and Facebook fans, RETWEET THIS POST and send a reply to the bottom of this page telling us what you love most about theappwhisperer.com. We will select winners at random from the selection of codes that we have and send them directly to your email box.
Leica C Image Shuttle – New For iOS
If you’re lucky enough to own a Leica C (Typ 112) compact digital camera then this new app will allow you to use functions such as: Remote control – including a Live View pciture of hte camera on your iOS device, browse and display images saved to your card, control shooting and image settings as well as up/download images between your camera and device. The app is free and you can download it here.
PictureBook – ‘Eventyr’ – By Benamon Tame
We’re delighted to publish Benamon’s 24th article to his PictureBook column with us and once again, it is outstanding, gushing with creativity and imagery both in pictures and words, don’t miss this. The concept behind the PictureBook column is not just about capturing stories but creating them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from Benamon’s own story series and also looks at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Over to you Benamon (foreword by Joanne Carter)… ‘In Livia’s Memory – Eventyr ‘ – ©Benamon Tame They found her in a large steamer trunk that had been tucked under…
Vodafone and O2’s 4G Services Quick Out of the Blocks in London – New Data from RootMetrics
In the race between Vodafone and O2 to establish new 4G services, both networks are delivering strong – and similar – initial results. Mobile performance research company RootMetrics (www.rootmetrics.co.uk) conducted over 11,000 tests across central London over the five days immediately after O2 and Vodafone launched 4G, finding O2’s average download speed on a blend of 3G and 4G was 16.3 Mbps, whilst Vodafone’s average download speed was 16.2 Mbps. These blended speeds represent what most people will typically experience, since 4G is not available at all times. Having launched its service late last year, EE remains out in front and has even improved its speeds from earlier in…
Mobile Photography Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – September 22, 2013
We have just finished curating this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase, our 33rd 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: Chad Rankin, Johnny Ecko, Maarten Oortwijn, Fernando Prats, dr pajchiwo, Susanne, la_ma_rie, Nettie Edwards/Lumilyon, Lisa Waddell, CLAY 3, Tomaso…
