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Mobile Photography and Art—‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Melissa D Johnston from North Carolina, United States
Today, we are publishing our twenty fourth 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 Melissa Johnston from North Carolina, United States. This is a memorable interview, a fascinating exposure of Johnston’s inner life. Her narrative speaks of the heartbreaks, near misses and finally the triumphs over adversity. 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…
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App Art School – Editing on the Go with HandyPhoto App
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. Today, we’re starting with a very popular app, HandyPhoto, it is available in both iOS (Apple) and Android (Google Playstore) platforms. HandyPhoto is to the adopter, a simple app to edit mobile images but belies a complex algorithm beneath it’s surface. Below, you’ll find a video demonstrating how apply simple editing techniques on the go to your images with HandyPhoto. iOS (Apple) HandyPhoto downland Android (Google Playstore) download
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You Brought Your Own Light, a New Book of Transgender Portraits
A book of transgender portraiture showcasing the work of award-winning photographer Allie Crewe has been published by Axis Projects Publishing this July 2020. You Brought Your Own Light is produced by Alan J Ward and brings together 26 of Allie’s revealing Transgender portraits, including the image of Grace, a doctor, which won the BJP Portrait of Britain 2019. A series of 12 of the portraits were initially exhibited in Manchester at an event sponsored by the National Transgender Charity, Sparkle. You Brought Your Own Light now brings these portraits together in a book, continuing Allie’s journey as a political artist exploring social issues of the day using photography to give a voice to those often…
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App Art School – Using Lens Blur for Elliptical and Linear Focus Techniques – Snapseed
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. Today, we’re starting with a very popular app, Snapseed, it is available in both iOS (Apple) and Android (Google Playstore) platforms. This app is a highly comprehensive editing tool and it is free, originally created by Nik Software, it is now owned by Google. It is absolutely essential for your mobile device, I urge you to install it. Below, you’ll find a video demonstrating how to use the Lens Blur…
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App Art School – Create Compositionally Pleasing Photographs – Recrop
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. Today, we’re starting with a very popular app, available both in the Apple App Store for iPhone, Recrop. To the adopter it appears to be a simple app enabling you to create compositionally pleasing photographs, it belies a complex algorithm beneath it’s surface. Below, you’ll find a video demonstrating how to create compositionally pleasing photos, straighten without losing a part of your photograph and how to add additional space to your…
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App Art School – Removing Unwanted Content from Photos Easily – TouchRetouch
Welcome to our brand new section within TheAppWhisperer.com entitled – App Art School. Within this section we will publish a range of tutorials from beginner, intermediate to professional editing techniques to help you adjust your photo art in the best possible way. Today, we’re starting with a very popular app, available both in the Apple App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac as well as Google Playstore for Android devices, TouchRetouch is to the adopter, a simple app to eliminate unwanted content from images, it belies a complex algorithm beneath it’s surface. Below, you’ll find a video demonstrating how to remove objects, wipe away lines instantly, edit with one touch…
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Mobile Photography & Art Instagram/Flickr Group Showcase – 21 June 2020
“Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks they speak“, DiCorcia (1993-1994) cited in Galassi (1995). Photography is a language, adopted as a means of expression and communication or as an accompaniment to words. It has its own set of grammatical rules and codes. How we read an image is determined by our own personal background factors. A universal photographic language does not exist when compared to a spoken or written language. Photography as a language is more to do with an interpretation rather than a direct translation of information. Language connects people and it also divides them, any language only works if it’s understood. This weeks mobile photography and art…
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Mobile Photography and Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 7 June 2020
It’s no secret that I have been romantically linked with a vast number of visually literate artforms over the years. Art raises awareness and elicits empathy for the matters at stake but sometimes we have to bend the message towards a more subjective and conceptualised direction. When I make art, it’s intimate, romantic, dramatic, confessional, I am metaphorically seduced. I’ll never tire of romance, it’s the only vice I have and my production is expeditious. Collectively, we have to believe that art has this power, this charisma, potential for magic and you don’t need to look further than this weeks Mobile Photography and Art showcase for that. Enjoy! If you…
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Mobile Photography and Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 31 May 2020
“The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon the possibility of freedom – and thus its significance – in a world dominated by apparatuses [cameras], to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us”. A quote from Towards a Philosophy of Photography by Vilém Flusser, 2000, I’ve been reading this week. It’s an interesting account modelling a distinction between ‘light writing’ (photography) and writing text itself. It’s a good academic…
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Finalists of the MObgraphia Mobile Photo Festival in Brazil To Be Revealed Tomorrow!
It was such an honour to judge this years MObgraphia Mobile Photo Festival in Brazil. As always, the images submitted were stunning and it took me considerable time to select the finalists. I am delighted to inform you that tomorrow 15th May 2020 at 7 pm Brazilian time. all the finalist’s and winners of each category will be announced. There will be a live broadcast on YouTube at the Museum of Image and sound in Sāo Paulo, Brazil. Tune in to the live broadcast here. The time differences for your area are: New York – 1800 hrs, London – 2300 hrs, Los Angeles 1500 hrs, Tokyo 0700 hrs, Paris 0000…