Portrait of an Artist – Fifth Video Showcase – Mobile Portraiture
Welcome to our fifth Portrait of an Artist Showcase! This Showcase complements our Portrait of an Artist Column edited by Jennifer Bracewell. Every two weeks Jennifer will review and curate work that has been submitted to our dedicated Flickr group. In addition, to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we will also highlight a few images that have caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy information and conducting discussions (what, when, where, why and how)…
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Wow, we have just published this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase and once again it’s filled with incredible mobile photography and art images from around the globe. It is a huge joy to curate and view your images and to present them in this format for us all to appreciate even more. Each and every image that is uploaded to our flickr group is very carefully viewed and considered and of course, highly respected. Thank you all for contributing each week for our viewing pleasure, we value you all. Thank you also for all the kind messages I have received following my major surgery. Today is day 19, which I find…
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…
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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
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iOS Photography App – Grungetastic HD – Updated – In App Purchases Now Included Free
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