New Apple iPhone X or iPhone 8/Plus – Which Should You Buy As An Mobile Photographer?
Our readership here at TheAppWhisperer.com are predominately preoccupied with smartphones as photographic devices and rightly so. The artists that we represent are some of the very best mobile photographers in the world. So the question on everyone’s mind, after the Apple keynote yesterday, is should I upgrade and which model should I upgrade to? With more choice than ever, this is by no means an easy question, we consider the key points below:
Mobile Photography – The Evolution of Zoom Camera Technologies in Mobile Devices – White Paper
I have been engrossed in this white paper by Corephotonics Limited, the pioneer and worldwide market leader of dual camera technologies for mobile devices. Corephotonics’ primary mission is to perfect the mobile camera photography experience and to provide superior image quality by combining their novel optics, mechanics and computational photography technologies. Corephotonics’ comprehensive technologies excel in addressing some of the most challenging deficits of existing smartphone cameras. They develop and deliver end-to- end multi-aperture solutions supporting the most professional photography capabilities, such as optical zoom, superb low-light performance, Bokeh and depth features, and optical image stabilization, all in an incredibly slim form factor. They partner with manufacturers at early design…
Mobile Photography & Art – My Top Five Apps by Andrew B White From New York City, US
We are revitalising our Top Five Apps section to our Photo App Lounge column. This a section within TheAppWhisperer where we ask highly accomplished mobile photographers and artists to list their top five apps and to explain why they have selected them. Kicking us off today is highly accomplished mobile photographer, artist Andrew B White, originally from New Zealand and now resident in New York City, US, enjoy! (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Talking about my top five photo apps is an interesting job! If you had asked me this question in 2009, 2012 or 2015 you will have got quite different answers – advances in phone camera technology have led…
Not Just Another Photography Competition… with Huawei x Dazed
Global smartphone manufacturer, Huawei, has joined forces with youth culture magazine, Dazed, to create an initiative that is designed to unlock the potential of future talent and celebrate creative individuals that view the world differently. ‘Reveal the Real You’; is a community-led photo project that will see three collaborators awarded a £10,000 bursary to donate to the community cause of their choice. The project is the latest partnership from Huawei that aims to inspire people to use their smartphone as a tool of self-expression. Evidenced by its partnership with Leica, the camera brand that democratised photography by taking cameras out of the studio and onto the streets, Huawei believes…
LG Announce New Flagship Smartphone with First to Feature Plastic OLED FullVision Display
According to circulating rumours, LG the Korean smartphone manufacturer, have been selected to supply the iPhone 8 with an OLED screen. What we do know is that LG have invested $7 billion into OLED production facilties. So, it’s not a huge surprise to hear of LG’s brand new flagship smartphone, announced today, will feature the world’s first smartphone device to feature a plastic OLED FullVision display. “Expertise in OLED has long been a core competency of LG, and the technology has always been seen as a potential value-add for smartphones,” said Juno Cho, president of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “With competition in the global smartphone space fiercer now than…
RED Hydrogen One Brand New Smartphone – In Greater Depth…
You may have heard that RED, the ultra high end camera manufacturer has stepped into Smartphone territory and announced a premium smartphone called Hydrogen One, with ‘holographic display’. Designed to work on the Android platform with a 5.7 inch display apparently will ‘seamlessly switch between traditional 2D content and holographic multi-view 3D content, as well as interactive games’. Preorders are already filling up for the $1,195 aluminium version and the $1,595 titanium model on RED’s website, with shipping expected to be early 2018. It’s interesting… I am a huge fan of RED gear and having visited Google’s HQ in London a few times, I know they’re packed into their YouTube…
Mobile Photography Tutorials – Lightroom Mobile Lesson 01 of 10 – Complete Free Course
We are delighted to publish the full series of tutorials (1-10) by Matt Kloskowski that will get you up and running with Lightroom Mobile in no time at all. Download Lightroom Mobile Here
New York City Smartphone Photo Workshop with National Geographic Expeditions
I’ve mentioned these workshops before and they continue to excite me. If you’re in New York City on the following dates, do book this workshop! Taught by Ed Kashi an award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker who has produced seventeen stories for National Geographic magazine. Dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times, a sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his work. One of his innovative approaches to photography and filmmaking is his acclaimed Iraqi Kurdistan flipbook that uses still images in a moving-image format. As a member of the prestigious VII Photo Agency, Ed has been recognized for his complex imagery…
Sony’s stunning new Xperia™ XZ Premium with the world’s first Super slow motion video in a smartphone
This morning in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress, 27th February 2017 – Sony Mobile Communications (“Sony Mobile”) today announced its most ground-breaking smartphone to date, Xperia XZ Premium, with a camera so advanced it captures motion that the human eye can’t see, a beautiful 4K HDR display, super-fast download speeds, a stunning loop design and even more intelligent features. Encapsulating decades of Sony innovation, Xperia XZ Premium incorporates imaging know-how embedded on Sony ‘α’ and Cyber-shotTM cameras to create the new Motion EyeTM camera system, for capturing life in ways no other smartphone can. The first smartphone to feature a memory stacked ExmorTMRS sensor with technologies usually only found…
Grand Flickr Group Showcase of 2016 – TheAppWhisperer – Mobile Photography and Art
I had intended to publish our 2016 Grand Flickr Group Showcase of Mobile Photography and Art on Christmas Day this year. I had prepared most of it ahead of time and was relatively well organised to go live on 25 December. However, events took a turn for the worse and as I awoke after a thoroughly turbulent night on the morning of 24 December, I picked up my phone and saw a Facebook message coming through from a friend expressing how sorry she was for the loss of Carolyn Hall Young a few hours before. For a few moments, I thought I was still in the midst of the wretched…
