Alternative Processes – Using Your Mobile Phone To Create Cyanotypes
As our regular readers will know, we have been looking at alternative post processing of mobile images for sometime. We have a Flickr group dedicated to this and we publish tutorials and additional information to help you make hard copies of your mobile images using alternative processes. We have published several articles already to our new section, see here. We’re delighted to be working closer with Matt Shapoff of Handmade on Peconic Bay (HMPB) fame. Shapoff originally an engineering student before attending of the photo department of NYU – he knew where his passion lay, he switched majors and used his engineering knowledge to experiment with photography. Shapoff received his…
Feature Shoot – 2014 Emerging Photography Awards
The Feature Shoot 2014 Emerging Photography Awards is a new international photography competition for emerging photographers who are ready to kickstart their careers. We know it can be difficult to market your work, design a website, fund new projects, and network with the right people on top of it all, so we hope to take that off your plate! Three talented photographers will be provided with the resources they need to get their career off to a strong start. They’re looking for up to five documentary, portrait, or fine art images displaying a strong narrative from a single series. We can’t wait to see your best work. FREE to apply! Application…
PhotoPhilanthropy – #WorldFightsAIDS Photo Contest
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) and PhotoPhilanthropy are excited to announce the World Fights AIDS Photo Contest on Instagram. They are seeking photos from across the globe that resonate with the mission of EGPAF, the global leader in the fight to end AIDS. The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation isn’t only fighting AIDS, they are changing the way the world fights AIDS. They work hand-in-hand with governments, partners, mothers, families, volunteers and donors toward a health and social infrastructure that can end HIV/AIDS – and keep it eliminated. Your assignment: Every community across the world has at least one unsung hero or grassroots organization working to eradicate this…
Olloclip App – Updated
Do you use an Olloclip lens for your mobile photography? If not, we recommend that you try it. The 4-in-1 lens for example consists of a fisheye capturing approximately a 180° field of view, there’s a wide angle lens, a 10x macro and a 15x macro. As well as the actual lens there is an Olloclip app and it has recently been updated. It’s a major update with iPad support, photo stabilization, picture-in-picture feature for macro mode, video cropping, low light boost on iPhone 5 and a lot more besides. We have listed all the new features below. This is a free app, click here to download Click here to…
Instagram – Overcoming Shyness with Margot Breby
Parisian Instagrammer Margot Breby (@margotbreby) has emerged from her shell, ‘I am very shy and fashion is a good way to express myself, growing up I wanted to become a stylist and I drew outfits I dreamed of wearing’ she said Margot’s serene, light-soaked Instagram photos have also helped with her shyness. “It brought wonderful people into my life,” she says. “People who became true friends. I never imagined that when I began a year ago.” Margot’s inspiration comes from eclectic sources, many of whom share her whimsical outlook. “I really love Sofia Coppola’s and Wes Anderson’s movies and Tim Walker’s photography,” she says. “I am also very inspired by…
iOS Photography App – LensLight – Major Update
LensLight is a popular app for iOS Photography for adding lighting effects to your images and it has just been updated with a Masking facility – a welcome feature. Two more Flare effects have also been incorporated. There’s also the ability to print directly from the app with Pixuru to create metal, canvas or poster prints. This is a free update, if you have already purchased LensLight, if not, you can download it here. It retails for $1.99/£1.49/download.
Hipstamatic’s Cinamatic App – Temporarily Free
Cinamatic is a fabulous app and one that we featured recently for our wonderful competition – if you missed that, please go here. Today, Cinamatic is completely free, down from $0.99/£0.69. It has also just been updated too with an updated clips view and various bug fixes and stability improvements. If you haven’t picked up Cinamatic yet, then we strongly suggest that you do. Click here to download.
iOS Photography Tutorial – ‘PhotoToaster Part 1: Introduction To A Basic Editor’ by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish the first of three PhotoToaster tutorials by Jerry Jobe. This is an introduction to PhotoToaster – it’s an app that I personally enjoy and I am sure many of you will also, don’t miss this…Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PhotoToaster retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here. “The majority of apps out there are specialized: they do one thing to make themselves stand out from the rest. Those are the apps I normally cover. The only app I’ve covered that attempts to be a basic editor is Snapseed. It’s free, and does a number of things wonderfully. But it’s not the…
iStopMotion for iPad – Temporary Price Drop
iStopMotion for iPad allows you to act as a filmmaker, directing your own animated film, it’s hugely comprehensive and was a Winner in the Macworld Best of Show for 2013. This is a quality app, that’s ultra slick and simple to use. Usually iStopMotion for iPad retails for $9.99/$6.99 but today you can pick it up for only $4.99/£2.99. Click here to download.
iOS Photography App – Paper Camera – Temporarily Free
Paper Camera offers real time cartoon and painting effects to your images and videos. It’s an interesting app and is simple to use. Today it is free to download (there are in app purchases). Usually Paper Camera retails for $0.99/£0.69 – click here to download for free today.
