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App Art School – Affinity Photo iPad – Blend modes
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 you’ll learn to blend layers with complete control using blend modes. Affinity Photo for iPad retails for £/$19.99 and you can download it here. Requires iOS 11.1 or later. Compatible with iPad.
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App Art School – Transforming dreams into digital art using Affinity Photo for iPad with Manuel Camino
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, join visual artist Manuel Camino (aka xebius) for his Lockdown 2020 session as he shows you how he uses inspiration from his dreams to create pieces of digital art in Affinity Photo for iPad. Affinity Photo for iPad retails for £/$19.99 and you can download it here. Requires iOS 11.1 or later. Compatible with iPad.
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Stephen Shore and Britt Salvesen in Conversation
As a huge fan of Stephen Shore, ever since I met and filmed him at PhotoLondon last year , I thought this conversation between him and LACMA curator Britt Salvesen would interest our readers too. They discuss Shore’s distinctive photographic work: from pioneering the aesthetic of the great American road trip, the new vanguard of Instagram photography, and how he practices the act of seeing.
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Huawei wins Two EISA awards for “Best Smartphone Camera” with the Huawei P40 Pro and “Best Smartwatch” for Huawei Watch GT 2
In London today, Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) today received two awards from the Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), a group comprising 55 of the world’s most respected consumer electronics magazines. HUAWEI’s P40 Pro was named “EISA Smartphone Camera 2020-2021” by the Association, alongside the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2, which won the accolade of “Best Smartwatch 2020-2021.” The EISA called out the HUAWEI P40 Pro as being “a true champion in its class,” praising the phone’s camera capabilities, display technology and luxurious design. High praise was also shared for the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2, with the association claiming that thanks to the watch’s smart design and host of fitness…
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Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 9 August 2020
The chronological picture or photo essay is something that is often repeated in contemporary photography and can be very compelling. Linear picture narratives guide us from a beginning point to an end point which is in line with classical ways of forming narrative. The sequencing of the images is important in ordering the unfolding narrative; we’re guided by the photographers intentions. However, there’s an important difference between the picture essay (or story) and a piece of classical prose. A writer will give you the information they want to tell you in a precise order that you, as a reader, aren’t in control of (unless you read the back pages first).…
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Mobile Movies – Smartphone Film Competition supported by Sony with Huge $/£ Prize
This competition is supported by Sony Mobile Communications Inc., which produces smartphone Xperia™ (Sony Mobile). It aims to expand the creator’s range of expression and opportunities for challenges. We support the creation of filmmaking creativity unique to smartphones. This is a free to enter competition. The submission period is August 1, 2020 – January 31, 2021. The prize is 600,000 Japanese Yen, which converts (today) to $5,680.00 or £4,338.00 Eligibiity and entry details are below:
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Mobile Photography and Art—‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Judy Lurie Wahlberg from Boulder, Colorado, United States
Today, we are publishing our twenty sixth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with talented mobile photographer and artist Judy Lurie Wahlberg from Boulder, Colorado, United States. This is an inspiring interview, love, loss, work, and melancholy are all described in prose that is somehow at once lapidary and altogether palpable; an engrossing read. To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian, Vicki Cooper, Gerry Coe, Sarah Bichachi, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Phyllis Shenny, Alisa Smith Williams, Joy Barry, Fleur Schim, Fiona Christian, Peter Wilkin, Ile Mont, Lynette Sheppard, M. Cecilia…
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Mobile Photography and Art—‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview Katya Rosenzweig from Boston, MA, United States
Today, we are publishing our twenty fifth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This one is with award winning mobile photographer and artist Katya Rosenzweig from Boston, MA, United States. This is a genuinely affective narrative that is emotionally compelling as well as intellectually stimulating and dripping with imaginative and original synthesis of mobile art. To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian, Vicki Cooper, Gerry Coe, Sarah Bichachi, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Phyllis Shenny, Alisa Smith Williams, Joy Barry, Fleur Schim, Fiona Christian, Peter Wilkin, Ile Mont, Lynette Sheppard, M. Cecilia Sao Thiago,…
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Intimate Photographs of Family Life in Bangladesh During Lockdown with the Covid-19 Pandemic
I’m so delighted to publish Mohammad Shahnewaz Khan’s visual personal project within his family in Bangladesh during the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. This is a photo story that will stay with you, the combination of narrative within the context of the images is astounding… Mohammad Shahnewaz Khan, born in 1984, lives in Chittagong. He works as a freelance photographer who also sees himself as a social activist, Curator and Educator. He is the Founder Director of the VOHH Photography Institute, VOHH Foundation and the VOHH FOTO FEST. Khan has won more than 100 international awards in the field of photojournalism and Documentary photography, Including; IanParry Scholarship-HM, UNICEF POY-HM, Alexia Student Grant,…
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Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 19 July 2020
There is and there always has been a vast difference between a photographer and someone who is interested in photography. David Hurn (Hurn, D and Jay, B. On Being a Photographer. (3rd ed.) 1997. Pp.43-44) explains that the person who becomes a photographer in not interested in photography as an end result but uses photography to pursue an intense interest in something else. This is a very important point because otherwise, photography only becomes about the hardware and it is so fitting in respect of mobile photography. Although mobile photographers are interested in the latest smartphone, iPad’s, the latest add on lenses, filters etc, I have noticed, that that interest…