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PictureBook – The Rules of Paranoia – By Benamon Tame
We’re delighted to publish Benamon Tame’s ninth article to his column PictureBook. In PictureBook Benamon concentrates on the the story behind the image. As Benamon himself describes it: ‘As Photographic artists we do not just capture stories but create them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from my own story series but will also look at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Don’t miss this uber creative article from Benamon, fabulous piece. Over to you Benamon. (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Delphi watched behind the safety of her jar, dirty glass eye behind stained glass wall. The other toys…
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Getting Exposure Right In Smartphone Portraiture
Nokia have published an interesting article on their blog describing how to maximize the use of exposure with their 808 PureView smartphone, (we have one of these in our lab actually and it really does take some great images). The blog explains how in the ‘creative mode’ on the 808 PureView, you can manually adjust the exposure, deliberately under exposing or over exposing the photograph. Of course this is ‘standard’ photography and these tips can be applied to whichever smartphone you have (within reason). Exposure Above are two images one showing the cameras ‘correct’ exposure and the other deliberately ‘under’ exposed. Bracketing If you bracket the exposure, allowing…
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Instagram Image Takes Front Page Of New York Times
Despite the actual photo shoot for this event taking place back in February 2012, this image of Alex Rodriguez taken by professional sports photographer Nick Laham in a locker room, graced Sunday’s (March 31, 2013) front page. It was taken with an iPhone and edited in Instagram. It’s an interesting tactic by the NYT’s, we’re not entirely sure why they have decided to publish these images now but we’re very grateful that they have as it continues to drive the momentum of mobile photography as a serious form of photojournalism. Petapixel (via Huffington Post), have some great behind the scenes images from the photo shoot and we have included them…
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Almost Half Of All Instagrammers Are Now Android Users
Yesterday, April 3, 2013, was the first year anniversary for the developers of Instagram’s Android app. Last year, in less than one day over a million people downloaded the app and now almost half of all instagrammers use the Android app to share photos with friends, family and the world. Philip McAllister of the Instagram Android Team, explains, "Instagram for Android has helped make this community more global than ever. Major events such as: Brazil’s Círio de Nazaré festival, the 85th birthday of Thailand’s King Bhumibol, and a streak of severe thunderstorms throughout Malaysia have been captured by Android Instagrammers and shared to global audiences like never before. We’ve also…
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Huge Photos – Temporarily Free
Huge Photos is a popular iPhone photography app, it has some interesting filters and the facility to add texts with some great fonts. Usually this app retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today you can pick it up for free. Click here to do so.
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Adobe Revel – Updated
Adobe have updated their Revel app, the one lets you organize, edit, and share your photos and synced across all your devices. This update gives you better ways to share, using the Mac App, you can post directly to FB and Twitter. You can also customise your posts to FB and Twitter, view a library or an album as a slideshow and view your photos on your Apple TV directly from your iOS device with Airplay support. This is a free update, to an already free app. You can download/update it here.
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parallel ll perspectivies With Catherine Restivo and JQ Gaines – Sixth Edition
We are delighted to publish the sixth edition of the wonderful parallel ll perspectives column of Catherine Restivo and JQ Gaines. This week Catherine and JQ have diversed a little from the usual remit of using one image and seeing how it can be apped in two different ways to create two completely diverse overall images. This time, they choose the same location and took different shots from there, the similarities are location and time of event, the differences in their approaches and the end results though are incredibly diverse. We have also included still images of each shot too with apps used and links to the app store incase…
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LensFlare – Temporarily Free
LensFlare is temporarily free today, this is a great app and a very popular one for many iPhone photographers. Usually this app retails for $0.99/£0.69, click here to download for free.
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PureShot – Updated
PureShot the popular app from the developers of 645PRO, 6×6 and 6×7 has just been updated. Check out What’s New below. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can pick it up here. It retails for $1.99/£1.49/download. What’s New? * New! Option for 3:2 (35mm-style) crop * New! Crops selected from on-camera button * Enhanced: general performance tweaks * Updated: user guide * Fixed: southern hemisphere on-screen GPS errors
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HarrisCamera – Updated
HarrisCamera is a popular app for iPhone photography and it has just been updated with a new design and optimization for the iPhone 5. It has also been enabled to allow you to upload images directly from your camera roll. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can pick it up here. It retails for $0.99/£0.69/download.