Incredible Surreal Underwater Photo Shoot
Benjamin Von Wong creates the most incredible surreal underwater images. This is not mobile but I wanted to post it here as the video shows many of the intricacies to create these incredible images. Prior to this Ben was working as a mining engineer and during some time off, picked up his point and shoot camera and started experimenting. This led him to experiment with photography in all kinds of ways and took him all around the world, until he eventually took it on full-time. The underwater shoot idea took place whilst he was on holiday with his family in Bali. He had obtained a diving certificate and thought he…
Top Mobile Photography Tips for Taking Photos of this Weekend’s ‘Supermoon’
With this Sunday seeing the summer’s second ‘supermoon’ illuminate the sky plus an annual meteor shower expected to make an appearance, amateur stargazers are in for a real treat. Sunday’s moon will be the biggest and brightest of 2014 making it the perfect opportunity to update your albums with photos that are truly out of his world. The scientific name for a “supermoon” is a perigee moon, perigee meaning “closest point to earth”. It refers to the phenomenon when the moon is in its “full moon” stage, and at its closest point to earth during its yearly orbit. With the moon being closer, it appears far bigger and far brighter.…
iColorama Procedural – Limitless Horizon
We’re really pleased to publish this video by Jerry Jobe describing the steps he took to create the image below, really wonderful. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: I take requests here on my blog. So when I created the image you’ll see below and posted it on the iColorama Facebook page, a user named Chris Harbinson asked, “Pretty please could you describe how you achieved what you did here?” When looking at the steps taken, I realized it would be better as a video tutorial than my standard screenshots-and-text entry. So here is how I created “Limitless Horizon”…
iOS Photography Tutorial – ‘PhotoToaster Part 3: Borders and Brushes’ by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish the third and final part of this wonderful Photo Toaster tutorial series by Jerry Jobe. If you have missed Part 1, please go here and Part 2 can be found here. PhotoToaster retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here. We are sure you will enjoy this very much, over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “As I said last time, I made a couple of errors in the first installment of my articles on PhotoToaster, and I’d like to clear them up here. The first is a feature that I did not find while experimenting with the app. When using the Custom Picker…
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – 3 August 2014
Yes!!! We have just published our latest Flickr Group Showcase and it’s absolutely breathtaking, filled will wonderful mobile photography and art images from all around the world. Our regular readers will know that the site has been a little quiet for the past week or so. I have recently been through a major surgical operation and I’m certainly not up to full speed yet but I am healing and I am getting stronger. Today, is day 11 post surgery, our lead image this week is by Carolyn Hall Young a fabulous artist and wonderful person; she asked me for a self portrait quite soon post surgery, I sent her one…
Olloclip, Hipstamatic, Cinamatic – Competition Winners Announced
We are delighted to announce the winner of our recent Olloclip, Hipstamatic and Cinamatic video competition. The requirements were to create a short video using the new Cinamatic app by Hipstamatic and post these to our new Flickr group, celebrating our new Olloclip Microsite. We received many wonderful entries and Donna Donato and I scoured these, trying to pick just three winners, it was no easy task. Eventually, we had to make a decision and we are delighted to announce that Matthew Wylie is the overall winner with his video entitled ‘City on Film’ (see below). Many congratulations Matthew, your video will be featured in a issue of Hipstmatic’s Snap…
iOS Photography App – ProCamera 7 – Temporary Price Drop
ProCamera 7 is a really great photo capturing and editing app – one that you won’t regret purchasing and today it’s available for less. Usually ProCamera 7 retails for $3.99/£2.49 but it’s currently retailing for $0.99/£0.69 – click here to download.
iOS Photography App – Grungetastic HD – Updated – In App Purchases Now Included Free
Grungetastic HD is a really wonderful app by highly accomplished photo app developers, JixiPix. They have just updated this app with the removal of in-app purchases and have now included them all within the main app. It’s a great day to download this app, if you haven’t done so already. Grungetastic HD retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here.
iOS Photography Tutorial – ‘PhotoToaster Part 2: Colors, Vignettes and Textures’
We’re delighted to publish the second of three Photo Toaster tutorials by Jerry Jobe (if you missed Part 1, please go here). This time Jerry Jobe takes a look at colors, vignettes and textures – I am sure you will enjoy this very much, take it away Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PhotoToaster retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here. “We’re taking a multi-part look at one of the many basic photo editors available to mobile photographers, PhotoToaster. In the first part we looked at importing images, controlling the settings, using and saving presets, and the first set of basic sliders that help control your image. Note: After…
iOS Photography App – LensFX – Updated
LensFX is another popular FX effects app for mobile photography by very popular app developers BrainFeverMedia. It has just been updated with a new set of masking tools. This is a free update if you have previously purchased LensFX, if not, you can download it here. It retails for $1.99/£1.49/download (there are in-app purchases).
