Tickle Your Fancy – #8
Welcome back to our eighth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. We launched this eight weeks ago and it’s already becoming very popular. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the…
iPhone and iPod: Liquid Damage And The Apple Liquid Sensors
Our Head of Technical Hardware, Kevin Carter, who also happens to be the Lead Technical Editor for DxO Optics (see here – DPreview use this data for their camera/lens reviews), as well as a freelance Editor for the British Journal of Photography amongst many others, is currently taking a look at a select number of ‘waterproof’ smartphones. He forwarded to me an interesting article on Apple’s website regarding their liquid damage warranty. It’s very interesting and something that I wasn’t aware of, although I am sure, as you are all aware that Apple do not give a liquid damage warranty, what you may not be aware of is the way…
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…
Photography As Art – The Times – By Kevin Carter
Many of our regular readers are well aware that theappwhisperer.com is the only smartphone photography website that is written by professional photographic technology writers. Kevin and I write for a huge array of titles from the British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, The Times, MacUser, HotShoe, Digital Photographer Android magazine and many many more. We wanted to share our latest published piece with you today. It’s in the UK version of The Times newspaper and it is entitled ‘Photography as Art’. Kevin has written an almost full page article entitled ‘Digital painting with pixels is freedom for photographers’. It’s an excellent piece. You can download the full section of the…
