Mobile Photography – “Streets Ahead” Interview with Gina Costa
This week, the Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective (Streets Ahead) is extremely pleased and honored to feature Gina Costa in our interview section. As you will quickly glean from this article, Gina is very knowledgeable in the fine arts… especially photography. Not only is she a Museum curator, but she also teaches Art History at various colleges and universities. So, before I start to bore you with an introduction rant, how about I just let Gina’s words speak for herself? For those of you who are being introduced to Gina Costa for the first time, be prepared… ‘cuz you’re in for a real treatt And for those of you who…
The Apps Nerds Workshop – The Importance Of Taking Your Time
We’re delighted to publish the latest article to Lola Mitchell’s App Nerds Workshop Column. In case you’re new to this wonderful column we wanted to give you a little background. Lola’s bi-weekly Column is called ‘The App Nerds Workshop‘. It is a virtual classroom, an environment for new talent to share their work, for Lola to share some of the ways she uses apps and for the not so new talent to share some secrets. Lola sometimes assigns broad themes to keep the creative juices flowing. Your minds will be tickled into creating, experimenting, daring, dreaming, making and doing. We have a dedicated Flickr group where you can submit your…
Howson PL – New For iPad
A very interesting app for iPad full of fascinating images taken in Poland in 1959 by Gerald Howson a British Photographer commissioned by ‘The Queen’ magazine to provide images for an article about cold-war Poland. It’s a fascinating story, he packed two cameras in his rucksack, picked up some developer (chemicals) and set out to Poland. He planned to develop his film there and print when back in the UK. ‘ Gerald Howson first visited Cracow, including the Jewish Kazimierz and Nowa Huta. Then he travelled to Lublin, Auschwitz and finally to Warsaw. Though not speaking a word of Polish, he was coming up close to his subjects. Howson went…
Grid Filter – Temporarily Free
Grid Filter is a popular app by MEA Mobile with unlmited effect layering and custom effect theme sharing. Grid Filter allows you to create custom photo manipulation effects and share the effect itself for anyone to apply to their own photos. Grid Filter usually retails for $3.99/£2.49 but today you can pick it up for free, click here to download.
Streets Ahead – Eighteenth Edition
Welcome to the Eighteenth edition of “Streets Ahead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Please be aware that this week’s showcase is a little longer than usual. Why? Well, many of us associated with The App Whisperer were busy socializing in a London meet-up last week… so, unfortunately, some work didn’t get done. Anyway, this week’s column is a combination of the past weeks . And believe me when I say that this was an incredibly difficult showcase to curate… because the quality of images that are submitted to he Flickr Group are absolutely gorgeous.,, and very inspiring! If you are not a member of our Facebook…
Latest Issues of Hipstamatic Snap Magazine Now Available – The Fashion Issue
The latest issue of HIpstamatic’s Snap magazine is now available to download, this is the Fashion issue opening with a wonderful quote by Coco Chanel, “Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening”. I couldn’t agree more… There’s some fabulous images (and text) within the pages of this wonderful issue, featuring fabulous mobile artists including Cedric Blanchon, Cindy Buske, Andrew Green, Lorraine Healy, Lara Wineman, Diego Uchitel, Sion Fullana, Eric Rozen and many more. Snap magazine is free and we highly recommend you pick it up from the…
Mextures – iPhone Photography App Tutorial – Part 2 – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish the second of a three part special series of iPhone Photography Tutorials with the app Mextures by our incredibly talented Contributor to our Tutorials section, Jerry Jobe. If you missed Part 1 of this series, please go here. Don’t miss this (foreword by Joanne Carter). Over to you Jerry… If you haven’t picked up Mextures yet, you can download it here. “When we left off last time, just before saving our image, we were looking at the Layers workspace. Each layer is listed from left to right along the bottom of the screen. Each layer has four variables listed in the middle of the thumbnail…
Our Daily App Giveaway – Marksta
Today we’ve teamed up with the developers of the very popular and newly updated app for iOS watermarking, Marksta to offer you the opportunity to pick up this app for free. Marksta normally retails for $1.99/£1.49 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.
iPhone Models Compared
There’s lots of debate going on as to whether you should upgrade to the latest iPhone 5c or iPhone 5s handsets. Apple have a great comparison chart on their site looking at the differences between the models. Perhaps the most signifcant issues to us as photographers are the camera, video recording, chips and battery power of course. Take a look at the differences below. We’ve been reading our linked site, dpreview this morning and these are their first thoughts that you may be interested to read: ‘According to Apple, a new, faster processor, means better photos. In iOS 7, the iPhone 5S camera will perform automatic white balance and exposure…
iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c Available on 4GEE, Orange and T-Mobile from 20th September
“EE today announced it will offer iPhone 5s, the most forward-thinking smartphone in the world, and iPhone 5c, the most colourful iPhone yet, to customers beginning on Friday, September 20. iPhone 5c will be available for pre-order on Friday, September 13. Customers may register interest today at ee.co.uk/register Customers purchasing iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on 4GEE will benefit from the UK’s biggest and fastest 4G network. 4G from EE is available to businesses and consumers in a total of 105 towns and cities across the UK, covering 60% of the population – with double speed 4GEE offering average download speeds of between 24-30Mbps now available in 20 towns and…
