vivo and ZEISS Enter Global Partnership for Mobile Imaging
We are very excited to announce under strategic collaboration, vivo and ZEISS will co-engineer an imaging system for vivo’s premium smartphones, starting with the upcoming vivo X60 series. In addition, the companies have unveiled plans to establish a joint R&D programme – vivo ZEISS Imaging Lab – and will launch a “vivo ZEISS Master Photography” campaign.
Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 13 December 2020
And breathe… soon I will be writing to you all to ask for your New Year Resolutions for 2021 and I want it to plunge us into a world so finely contoured, so throbing with gentility, that it surges and crescendo’s with an intensification that speaks volumes. Use it to free yourself, to make choices and you might be surprised by the person who reveals herself. Today, enjoy this love letter of a showcase, etiquette dictates this one deserves a standing ovation. Thank you to all the talented artists for submitting your works to our showcase this week. If you would like your work to be considered for entry in to our…
Mastering Winter Mobile Photography with Affinity Photo
We are delighted to publish this tutorial today by Jo Bradford, professional photographer and author of best selling book ‘Smart Phone Smart Photography‘ in association with Affinity Photo software “Living on Dartmoor I am used to shooting in inclement weather. Wind, rain and mist are all the norm up here, and I’ve come to learn that moody days are when the light is at its best. Low-key landscapes, where most of the tones in the picture are at the darker end of the scale, are in abundance in bad weather, giving plenty of photo opportunities of dramatic clouds, shafts of light, rainbows and storm fronts passing across the landscape.
Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 15 November 2020
Developing an impregnable sense of self confidence should be the basis for a contented life but however, it is often the first stumbling block. Artists’ falter more than many professions with this, perhaps not so much as comedians, both occupations involve risks but without taking them, we cannot grow. Self-acceptance should never be elusive, it should be something we spend time on encouraging in ourselves as well as honouring in others, never losing the former. Eventually this Covid-cloud we are all living beneath will pass over, but whilst it is still here, its more important than ever to be gentle with our handling of ourselves and with each other. Increased…
Mocking an “Acrylic Pour” in iColorama and MetaBrush
We are so delighted to publish this iPad art tutorial by none other than our brilliant tutorial editor, Jerry Jobe!… “I threw together a piece about a week ago that reminded me of one of those “acrylic pour” paintings, where the artist takes what remains of their different colors of acrylic paints and pours them onto a canvas. Swirls can be made by using a small rod or even a comb-like set of rods. The resulting swirls are left to dry. I called my piece “Tip: Do Not Pour Directly on iPad” – a good bit of advice about any liquid, especially paint. I explained that I used both MetaBrush…
Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 27 September 2020
Double Life a book-length photographic project by Kelli Connell has kept me entranced this week. At first, the viewer will imagine that the images are of shared moments in the life of two women, who possibly appear to be a couple. Then as each page is turned, we begin to realise that it’s not two women, it’s one, the same woman and the mystery begins. The images are documentary style and not dissimilar to the autobiographical work of Nan Goldin, albeit without the edgy undertones. Connell describes this project as “intimate moments experienced personally, witnessed in public, or watched on television“. This body of work is regarded as self-portraiture but…
Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 20 September 2020
As photographers it can be difficult to know when not to take a photograph. Sometimes these moments are out of our control, perhaps based on ethical, moral or religious grounds. When I look back at the times I chose not to take a photograph one moment stands apart from the others. It was early morning and I was on a train enroute to my job at a paparazzi photo agency. I had a window seat, which was unusual and I noticed her immediately. It was the billowing blue floral dress that caught my eye, it was so summery, so joyous and yet the weather was bleak, cold, dark and it…
App Art School – Compositing Techniques in Affinity Photo with James Ritson
Welcome to our brand new section within TheAppWhisperer.com entitled – App Art School. Within this section we publish a range of tutorials from beginner, intermediate to professional editing techniques to help you adjust your photo art in the best possible way. This session covers making selections, quick masking, selection refinement, canvas resizing, sky replacement, fill layers, tonal blending, custom shortcuts, quick opacity toggling, non-destructive retouching, cutting out objects, scaling/rotating, textured brush masking, channel-contrast blending, brushwork, live filters, blend modes and adjustment layers—a fair amount to sink your teeth into! Whether you’re curious about compositing or simply want more non-destructive techniques under your belt, there will be something for you here.…
Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 6 September 2020
Many photographers draw on literary influences on which to base their images. Hannah Starkey used Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s 1832 poem The Lady of Shalott as a reference point for a body of work exhibited at Maureen Paley Gallery in 2010. In the poem, The Lady of Shalott is subject to a curse. She is only able to view the real world refectled through a mirror. Temptation ensues and she sneaks a glimpse at a knight’s shining sword, looks out of the window and dies. This is a very brief gist of the poem but the idea is that if you only view the world through shadows of reality through reflections…
App Art School – Using Atmospheric Perspective for concept paintings in Affinity Photo for iPad with Paolo Limoncelli
Welcome to our brand new section within TheAppWhisperer.com entitled – App Art School. Within this section we publish a range of tutorials from beginner, intermediate to professional editing techniques to help you adjust your photo art in the best possible way. In this session, UI/UX designer Paolo Limoncelli explores atmospheric perspective and how to use it to create concept art in Affinity Photo for iPad. The output will be a thumbnail sheet with four concept landscapes, a good starting point for inspiration and following steps. You can also get the tools Paolo uses in his session for free (personal use only). His DAUB® Concept Tools Mk IV is a set…
