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Mobile Photography/Art #tawselfie Challenge
You may recall our recent Sunday Showcase post where we discussed Rembrandt’s first self portrait compared with another, thirty years apart. We also touched on ‘selfies’ today. If you did not read it, please go here. Today, we are launching our new mobile photography and art challenge. We would like you to post one selfie to Instagram with this hashtag #tawselfie but within the caption, please state how many you took before deciding to post the one that you have done, this is imperative to be included within this challenge. Please take a look at Catherine Caddigan’s image below with caption ‘after eight selfies’. We’ll publish a showcase of these…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 4 October 2018
Mobile photography has capsulated self portraiture, or selfies as they are known. Offering the ultimate notion of control, you’re not trusting someone else to capture you, you’re deciding how to frame yourself, you’re not relying on someone else to make you look good. The paradox at the heart of selfies is that they masquerade as a candid shot but in reality they are posed and often heavily edited. But at least for the younger audience, looking good, is not good enough, you need to look good in extreme scenarios. There’s a blurring between the lines of reality and fantasy, until they collapse into one another. Such was the case this…
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Mobile Photography – Selfissimo – Brand New Self Portraiture App from Google for iOS
Whether you’re a fan of self portraiture or not, you must take a look at this brand new app from Google for iOS. It’s completely free and packs a punch! Once you start your own photoshoot, Selfissimo shoots a pic each time you stop moving. To fire it up again, just ‘strike a pose’ or move the phone a little to retrigger. It’s fun, click here to download for free.
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Mobile Photography / Art ‘Why I Don’t Create Self Portraiture with my Smartphone’ by Philippe Schlossberg from France
Our TrueView Interview section is an area where we ask one singular question, to mobile photographers and artists and it is captured to video. This time, we asked accomplished Mobile Photographer and Artist, Philippe Schlossberg to consider and answer ‘why I create self portraiture with my smartphone’. Interestingly, Philippe explained that he doesn’t create selfies anymore and in this video, he explains why. Enjoy! Many artists are working on their videos right now and each video is as unique and individual as each artist. We are fully conscious and respectful that you are all capturing a part of yourself and sharing it with us and we love it. Thank you…
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New Selfie App Allows You To Order Your Perfectly Fitted Bra From Home – Raises $8m in Funding
Personally, whenever I need a new bra I book a fitting in a good lingerie store. That way I can be ensured of the most luxurious, sumptuous and perfect fit and most women will admit, there’s not much more delicious and heavenly than a correctly fitted and supportive bra. You may be wondering why I am telling you this, although I’m sure it aroused your interest, well the reason is, a startup company called ThirdLove has just raised $8m funding supported by a long list of big fashion houses and names, even American Express have chipped in. Thirdlove is utlisling imaging technonglies to help the customer find the correct size…
