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Street Football: An Insider’s Perspective – Event Tonight – I’ll Be There!
I’m super excited to be attending the preview of the above event tonight in London, it’s in association with HTC a global leader in mobile innovation and design. They have launched ‘Inside Street Football,’ a new exhibition designed to capture the passion and spirit of street football. ‘Inside Street Football’ used the award-winning new HTC One to shoot grass roots football across twelve cities in Europe and the Middle East, including London and Glasgow, with all images captured by Getty Images’ photographers. The exhibition will be hosted at Top Office Machines, 133-135 Bethnal Green Road – a gallery located in a former computer repair shop – from Friday, 24th of…
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Streets Ahead – Visual Diary Article – ‘Setting The Stage’ – By Maddy McCoy
We’re delighted to publish in full a Visual Diary article by Maddy McCoy via our specialist dedicated Backspaces section, see here that compliments JQ’s and Maddy McCoy’s Streets Ahead Column with us. The concept of Streets Ahead is best expressed in their own words – “This column will provide a platform for discussion on the techniques, aesthetics, and goals that we, as women, bring to this art form. In addition to the weekly showcase, we have set up a dedicated Flickr group –see here. We also plan on featuring bimonthly interviews as well as sharing our own experiences and learning curves in mobile street photography. We will do this through a Visual Diary…
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Technical Tutorial – ProCam: Night Mode
Recent updates to ProCam added its “ISO Boost” feature which when activated, will up the iPhone5’s maximum ISO from 800 to 3200. This is really helpful when shooting in low light environments. A real bonus with this app is its “Night Mode”! This allows you to reduce the shutter speed…and so more light is captured by your iPhone 5’s camera sensor. Using this with the “ISO Boost” gives you a lot more possibilities!! We have recently published some excellent technical tutorials to help you get the most from ProCam, to read those, go here. ProCam retails for $0.99/£0.69 and you can download it here. Let’s take a look…
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Streetmate – Updated!
Streetmate has just received a huge update, straight from the Press Release: ‘Streetmate is for ones who love shooting photos and making stories using camera rather than snapping random objects and then constantly tweak it until it subject inside gets unrecognizable. We believe that Streetmate will bring back photographic experience to people who enjoy making photos most of all. > In the early days Robert Capa would grab his Leica camera with 36 exposure film and think twice before shooting each photo. As a result he made some photographic masterpieces without editing and selecting favorites from three hundred photos. Think about it—masterpieces from 36 film roll without editing them even once.…
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Kevin Carter Lead Technical Editor For DxO Mark Scores Samsung Galaxy S4 Highly
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 Samsung S4 smartphone, as dpreview have quoted, ‘DxO analyzed 14 aspects of mobile imaging including detailed image quality assessment, flash performance, autofocus reliability and more to calculate a final score’. Kevin scored the smartphone with a DxOMark Mobile score of 75 which ranks it as number two in the DxO smartphone rankings, between Nokia’s 808 and the Apple iPhone 5. Kevin reports that the Samsung Galaxy S4 captures images with “impressive detail preservation in bright light conditions,” “good auto-exposure even with…
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TiltShift Video – Miniature effect for movies and photos – Temporary Price Drop
Perfect timing, as well as our previous post too of FiLMiC Pro’s price drop, Tilshift Video will give you some great effects for you to create a ‘miniature’ movie to upload to our brand new Mobile Movie Column, to find out more about that, read here. Usually TiltShift Video retails for $4.99/£2.99 but today you can pick it up for only $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download. Join the Forum discussion on this post
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FiLMiC Pro – Temporary Price Drop
FiLMiC Pro is an excellent mobile movie recording app and it is currently sporting a lower price. As you may know, we have recently launched a brand new Mobile Movie Column within TheAppWhisperer.com, see here and we would love you to upload some more videos so we can feature them on the site within a showcase. This app is excellent as a recording device, usually it retails for $4.99/£2.99 but today you can download it for only $1.99/£1.49. Click here to download. Join the Forum discussion on this post
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FlickStackr for Flickr – Temporarily Free
This is a great app, we use FlickStackr for Flickr all the time for monitoring our Flickr groups, it’s excellent and is tempoarily free. Ususually this app retails for $1.99/£1.49 but it’s free until tomorrow – May 22, 2013. Click here to download. Join the Forum discussion on this post
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Donna Donato Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist For Our New Mobile Movie Section
We’re really delighted to welcome Donna Donato as a new Columnist to theappwhisperer.com. We previously interviewed Donna in both our A Day In the Life and Extension of the I series of interviews. Donna is an image-maker, historian by training and a film/video editor by vocation. From a very early age she was smitten with images of all kinds. Donna absolutely loves film and filmmaking. Currently she lives in Paris, a city that has had a long and passionate love affair with ‘the movies’ and is one of the crossroads for world cinema. Donna is going to be running our new and unique Mobile Movie Column. We have been inspired…
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Flickr Studio – Temporarily Free
Flickr Studio is free today to celebrate the newly updated main Flickr site. Usually this app retails for $4.99/£2.99, click here to download. Join the Forum discussion on this post