Portrait of an Artist – Second Video Showcase – Mobile Portraiture
Welcome to our second 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)…
Provoke Camera – New iOS Photography App – We Have Promo Codes To Share!
Provoke Camera is a brand new iOS Photography app from the developers of Nofinder and MPro. It has been developed in collaboration with Glyn Evans. Inspired by Japanese photographers of the late 1960’s like Daido Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira and Yutaka Takanashi, Provoke Camera does just one thing, produce black and white images with that gritty, grainy, blurry look reminiscent of the “Provoke” era of photography, and in two great formats; square format 126 and 35mm format 135. Provoke Camera features six great black and white live view effects, in two wonderful film formats, 126 [1:1] and 135 [3:2]: 1. High Contrast 2. Normal 3. Low Contrast 4. Darken with Blur…
Photo Tool Apps – Color Calibrating Your Mobile Screens
We’re delighted to publish this article today to our Photo Tool Apps section by Martin Duerr. When working on professional precision colour work on your mobile device it’s essential for it to be color calibrated, much like a professional monitor. This app allows the images on your iPad, iPhone or Android device to be viewed with a single-color corrected gallery. I’ll let Martin explain more (foreword by Joanne Carter). App Highlights Color correction for iPad, iPhone and some Android mobile devices Personal photo-watermarking feature View all images loaded on iPad/iPhone in one easy to use gallery viewer – no photo importing required Pixel level zooming abilities Requirements Sypder3/4 device Apple…
Chelsea Matiash – The Wall Street Journal’s Photo Editor – Exclusive Interview with Joanne Carter
‘I view mobile photography as a blessing and a curse’ says Chelsea Matiash, Photo Editor at The Wall Street Journal. ‘I think it really is a testament to how valuable photographs are and how drawn we are to images, people really feel the need to visually record their world’. Matiash speaks to Joanne Carter, at theappwhisperer.com, expressing both her professional and personal views and the impact of smartphone photography and Citizen Journalism upon the industry today. (All images ©Chelsea Matiash and taken with an iPhone) ‘Lower East Side, New York, 2013’ – ©Chelsea Matiash The obsession by many to record literally everything about their lives has led Matiash to…
Top Five Photo Apps – Photo App Lounge With Andrea Koerner
Welcome to our Top Five Photo Apps – Photo App Lounge section of theappwhisperer.com. This is an area on our site where we ask highly accomplished mobile photographers what their top five photo apps are and why. We previously published the Top Five Photo Apps as recommended by Yannick Brice , Cedric Blanchon, Irene Sneddon, Sarah Jarrett, Louise Fryer, Lisa Waddell, Davide Capponi, Ali Jardine, Clint Cline, Elaina Wilcox, France Freeman, Tess Gomm, Lola Mitchell, Vivi, Em Kachouro, Laetitia Harnie-Coussau, MaryJane Sarvis, AlyZen Moonshadow, Ginaluca Ricoveri, Jennifer Sharpe, Natali Prosvetova, David Hayes, Vanessa Vox and Robin Robertis’ Top Five Photo Apps including accompanying images demonstrating these selections, if you missed…
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Portrait of an Artist Interview with Jessy Menchaca by Jennifer Bracewell
We are delighted to publish our third Portrait of an Artist interview to this very special column, edited by Jennifer Bracewell. This is a really beautiful interview with the wonderfully warm and creative artist Jessy Menchaca, combined with fabulous images too. (We also have a dedicated Facebook group set up for this Column too – please join us here. Jennifer regularly adds and contributes to this. In addition we have set up a Flickr Group dedicated to this column. We would like you to send all your portraiture here and we will select images for curation and showcases as well as commentary – this is the Flickr Group link). Don’t…
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iOS Photography Tutorial – XnShape – by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest technical tutorial here today. This week Jerry has worked on an app that stirs up mixed emotions for him and not in an arousing way. That said, he puts it through its paces, compares and rates it – over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “This week, I’m doing something that I normally don’t do: talk about an app that doesn’t excite me. XnShape by Pierre Gougelet is an app that breaks down your image into various shapes – in that, it is much like Percolator or Part. Given the popularity of Percolator, it is obvious that many people like that…
Streets Ahead Interview: Shayna Schulman – Mobile Street Photography
This week, the Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective (Streets Ahead) is pleased and honoured to feature Shayna Schulman in our interview segment. Many of you may know Shayna as ‘WitChiWotcha’ on Flickr. Her street photography frequently catches our attention. She has a wonderful ability to capture moments, especially around the streets of where she currently lives in London. We highly recommend a visit to her various galleries. I have personally met and shared lunch with Shayna in London and she’s a really wonderful gregarious person with a great sense of humour and you will see that being released within her images below. It was a pleasure to spend time with…
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