Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – 12 October 2014
Oh yes! It’s another incredibly fabulous week for mobile photography and art – check out this showcase! It’s incredible and packed to the brim with hugely strong work from all around the world. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here With many thanks to our Flickr Group Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Each image can be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: Shel Serkin, Cattis C, Geri Centonze, Cattis C, Cathrine Halsor, livenotonevil, mutablend, JeSaFoto, Erika Brothers, Jeffrey Simpson, borisbschulz2009, Roger Guetta, Federica Corbelli, Susanne, Riel Noir, Petyr…
Mobile Camera Club, Paris – Presents New Mobile Photography Exhibition
Many thanks to Lynette Jackson, who we just interviewed in our latest Day in the Life Interview series, see here, for letting us know about this new exhibition by the Mobile Camera Club in Paris opening next week. “One century after the futurist, constructivist and vortices’ movements, six photographers coming from different countries and backgrounds, equipped with their smartphones, question the reality and modernity of their urban environment. Sharing the same fascination as their predecessors for the graphic and geometric imagination that shaped our megalopolises, they use framing, perspective, photomontage or typography to show a world between visible and invisible, real and virtual. These “image builders” intend to show us…
iOS Photography App – MPro – Updated and Temporarily Free
MPro is a popular app, it has been designed specifically for monochrome photography. It operates in uncompressed mode to save internal processing to achieve higher quality processing. It is possible to save uncompressed TIFF files. Meaning you can get clear and sharper pictures without JPEG compression. Also supports Full Resolution. MPro usually retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today it is free, click here to download.
Hipstamatic Update Cinamatic – It’s Also Currently Free
Cinamatic enables you to create stunning short films and share via Instagram, Vine or Facebook. It’s hugely popular and has some fabulous filters. This update allows you to do even more, there are manual controls – allowing you to manually adjust focus, exposure, white balance, shutter speed, and ISO while you’re recording video. There are more capture speeds, time-lapses and slow-motion, support for different capture durations, support for different image stabilisation modes and of course, support for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus screen sizes. Cinamatic is currently free and you can download/update here
Another iOS Photography App Giveaway – Simply HDR – TheAppWhisperer
Simply HDR is a very popular app by JixiPix, it offers the facility to create HDR images without having to take several exposures. it’s literally just one click away. Simply HDR retails for $1.99/£1.49 but if you would like to be in with chance to win a promo code, all we ask is for you to reply to this post telling us what you love most about theappwhisperer.com (we know how hard it is to narrow it down to one thing and also retweet or FB this post). That’s it, we’ll enter your details into our magic hat and if you’re a winner, a code will soon be sitting in…
Pure Innovation – The Ultrascope, Powered by a Lumia Smartphone.
The Open Space Agency (OSA) and Microsoft have teamed up to create a prototype of an amazing 3D printed observatory called the ‘Ultrascope’ that is powerful enough to take pictures of outer-space. The device will be available to the masses in the next few years, see the video below, which features James Parr, founder of the OSA who designed the incredible model. Called Ultrascope, and supporting devices such as the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020, it has the potential to completely reinvent astrophotography, making it possible to capture professional-grade celestial images, right from your back garden, for a fraction of the price of traditional space telescopes. Once 3D-printed and assembled, the…
‘Impossible’ Tutorial – Emulsion Lifts
We’re delighted to be working closer with The Impossible Project team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and…
New Periscope Camera by HTC For Mobile Photography – iOS and Android Platforms
HTC have launched the RE Camera, it’s a16MP ‘GoPro competitor’ and it records 1080p video and time-lapses. It can also record HD slow-motion video at 1/4 speed. The device includes a 146-degree wide-angle lens and image stabilisation software, and is built with a waterproof design. The RE app works with both Android and iOS devices, where your photos and videos will be automatically viewable. You can also use your device as a viewfinder, as the RE doesn’t have a screen of its own. The camera comes in white, teal, orange and navy blue and will be available for $199 at recamera.com starting November in the US. The RE will also be available from…
Apple Confirms iPad Event on October 16, 2014
As we mentioned two days ago in our Rumour page, see here, Apple have now sent out invitations to what we hope will be a bumper round of fabulous product launches. September in the Apple calendar is typically dedicated to Apple smartphones and October often sees new iPads, iMacs and Mac software, with availabilty in November. We’re hoping to see a new thinner and faster iPad Air 2, a 12.9 inch iPad and possibly a new iPad Mini. There may also be new iMacs with retina displays. The event will be held at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. at 10:00 am PT/1:00 pm ET/6.00 pm London time. It’s exciting, we…
iOS Photography App – Clone Camera Pro for iPad – On Sale Today!
Yesterday we mentioned some great apps that were on sale and many of them still are today, if you missed that post, please go here and grab some bargains. Clone Camera Pro for iPad is also on sale today, it’s a popular app that allows you to make clones of your subjects in a single photograph. Usually Clone Camera Pro for iPad retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today it is completely free. Click here to download. This app requires iOS 5.1 or later.
