Streets Ahead – Visual Diary Article – ‘Vaisakhi’ – By JQ Gaines
We’re delighted to publish in full a Visual Diary article by JQ Gaines’ 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…
PictureBook – The End of Dreams – By Benamon Tame
“There was silence in the library. A wing of the Toy room was filled with books, lining heavy shelves and piled high as if in the memory of trees. Faded children’s books lay between scarlet encyclopedia and almanacs filled with the treasures of the Empire. Manuals of Manners and stranger books brought by the last Governess. The memory of light and those that flew burned into her mind and overlaid all she saw, looped in ascension over the jagged landscape that lay beneath her feet. The tip of one feather caught in a breeze and she shifted back from the edge of the tower, her limb a crude and constant…
New Olloclip Quick-Flip Case!
The olloclip Quick-Flip™ Case is specially designed to reveal the corner of your iPhone allowing you to quickly connect an olloclip lens. The Quick-Flip Case is available for iPhone 4/4S, as well as iPhone 5 (which has an adapter for the iPod touch 5th generation). The case colors are White and Translucent Black. The case also comes with a detachable Pro-Photo adapter for mounting your iPhone to a tripod in portrait or landscape. The adapter also has a cold shoe bracket for attaching microphones, lights and other accessories. Finally, the rotating corner becomes a dedicated shutter button for quickly snapping photos. The develoeprs have created a special introductory discount code…
iColorama – iPad – Temporarily Free
So many mobile photographers swear by this app, if you haven’t picked it up yet, we recommend that you do so today. It usually retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today it is free. Click here to download.
Paper by FiftyThree – Updated
Paper by FiftyThree is an incredibly creative and popular app to help you capture your ideas as sketches, diagrams, illustrations, notes or drawings on your iPad and share them across the internet. This app has just been updated and now allows you to seek out inspiration in a new feed ‘made with paper’ from other like minded creatives. There’s also a zoom feature and ink upgrade. This update and in fact the complete app is free (there are in-app purchases) you can download it here. Join the Forum discussion on this post
The Royal Photographic Society Publishes Our News With Nettie Edwards
We’re delighted to announce that The Royal Photographic Journal, the magazine of The Royal Photographic Society have published details of The Fox Talbot Museum Exhibition containing Nettie Edwards‘ mobile photography images currently on display within their ‘Arrangements in Black and Grey: Black and White Photography In The 21st Century’ Exhibition. This article is in the latest edition, within the News section of the magazine and we have included a copy of the pdf printed version below. I am really excited to be attending the private viewing of this exhibition on Friday evening this week! The Royal Photographic Society is an Educational Charity promoting both the art and…
Streets Ahead – First Edition – With Maddy McCoy and JQ Gaines
We’re delighted to publish the First Edition of Streets Ahead, the wonderful Women’s Street Photography Column that both Maddy McCoy and JQ Gaines run. This is an incredibly exciting Column and if you would like to learn more about it, go here. If you would like to join the Streets Ahead Flickr group, please go here – over to you Maddy and JQ (foreward by Joanne Carter). “We would like to thank everyone for participating in the Streets Ahead Flickr group. There were many fantastic submissions and we were extremely impressed with the quality of the images. For our inaugural Streets Ahead Showcase we each picked our 5 favorite…
Oggl – New Social Network For Creative Photographers From Hipstamatic
The British Journal of Photography, the world’s longest running photography magazine, established in 1854 which our technical camera reviewer , Kevin Carter, writes for today unveiled that Hipstamatic have launched a new social network for ‘creative’ photographers. Oggl “is said to offer a brand new way to experience Hipstamatic’s filters, “and for the first time ever, directly connects the Hipstamatic community and like-minded creatives from around the world,” says the San Francisco-based start-up in a statement released last night” according to BJP today. “From the editorial spreads of Harper’s Bazaar to the cover of Time magazine to the pages of pages of The New York Times, Hipstamatic photographers have had…
Camera Comparison – Samsung Galaxy S4, Sony Xperia Z, HTC One, Nokia Lumia 920 and iPhone 5
Gizmodo recently published a large smartphone camera test to try to decifer which smartphone, out of the Samsung Galaxy S4, Sony Xperia Z, HTC One, Nokia Lumia 920 and iPhone 5 is the ‘best’. They tested them in “four common situations, two in daylight and two in a blacked out corner of the office”. Had we carried out this test ourselves in our own lab with our resident camera reviewer, also BJP contributor and DxO optics reviewer, Kevin Carter, it would have been very different. But, it’s interesting to note the winner that Gizmodo selected was actually for a joint overall place between the HTC One and the Nokia Lumia…
Nokia Lumia 928 VS iPhone 5 & Samsung Galaxy S III – Video Shootout
Nokia have published a video demonstrating the video quality of the Lumia 928 complated with the Apple iPhone 5 and the Galaxy S III in low light conditions. The Lumia 928 will be unveiled next week by the company, it will come with a 8.7 mp camera with Carl Zeiss optics and optical image stabilisation. Inside it will run Windows Phone 8 OS and will come preloaded with a stack of Nokia’s preloaded apps. Take a look at the video below, but don’t be too surprised by the outcome…
