Getty Images Offering $130,000 Grants to Editorial & Portrait Photographers
We have mentioned this previously, see here, but just as a reminder, photographers have until 15 May to submit their work for a chance to win one of this year’s Getty Images Grants. This year, as it celebrates the programme’s 10-year anniversary, Getty Images will be offering six Editorial photography prizes, three Creative Grants for non-profit organisations and photographers, and one Portrait award – totalling $130,000 in cash prizes. In the Grants for Editorial Photography category, Getty Images will present five $10,000 prizes, which will be awarded to photojournalists pursuing personal projects of journalistic significance. An additional grant, offered in partnership with the Lean In foundation, will be “awarded to…
Creative Grants & Residencies – ‘DIY Residencies’
As you know one of our new and key areas here within theappwhisperer.com is to bring you news of creative grants and residencies that we feel with help you progress with your wonderful art. The Guardian reports on DIY residencies – ‘a career in the arts on your own terms’. This article talks about 24 hour plays to co-op leasing and explains that US artists are ditching traditional residencies in favour of working on their own terms. It’s a very interesting read for all, please go here to read more.
Competition – CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year
Free to enter, the CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition challenges you to change our perceptions of day to day life in the urban environment through their brief: ‘Cities at Work’. The winner will receive a luxury photo-safari trip from a choice of destinations around the globe. The Urban Photographer of the Year will be the person who, in the eyes of the judges, has best captured the brief to portray the life of a town or city at a given time of day. Whilst the photograph does not necessarily have to be taken at that specific time of day, it does need to look as though it was.…
iOS App – Phonto – Text on Image – Updated
Phonto is a very popular app for watermarking or just adding text to your images. It has just been updated with the addition of two new fonts (Quirky Nots and A Dripping Marker). There’s also a new Gaussian Blur filter and Plain Image and Image Theme templates too. This is a free update to a free app, click here to download/update.
iOS Photography App – ProCamera 7 – Updated
ProCamera 7 is a very popular image capture and editing app for iOS photography and videography. It has just been updated with as the developers describe ‘one of our most feature packed updates to date’. The updates include new TIFF file saving, Open-in functionality, high res Instagram support and Shadows and Highlights correction tools. You can read more about the updates below. This is a free update if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $4.99/£2.99. New Updates With the new TIFF file format you can now save and edit maximum quality, truly lossless photographs in ProCamera. There are two…
Inspired Eye – Photography Tutorial – ‘Thinking Like A Painter To Improve Your Photography’ by Olivier Duong
We’re delighted to be working closer with the Inspired Eye team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Inspired Eye is an incredible magazine and is heavily into in Street Photography but also covers other genres too. It offers a very full photographic experience. It is not ‘mobile’ per se and the following article is not directly related to ‘mobile’ but essentially photography is photography and we feel that this article is very relevant and helpful to us all. We’ve been chatting to the author and co-founder of Inspired Eye today Olivier Duong and he has given us kind permission to…
iOS Black & White iPhone Photography Technical Tutorial by Paul Brown
We’re delighted to publish Paul Brown’s black and white iPhone Photography workflow tutorial. This iPhoneography workflow focuses on black and white photography. It touches on a combination of manual processes and quick automated processes via some powerful apps. We have published several of Paul Brown’s workflows recently. Please take a look at our Paul Brown archive here. Over to you Paul (foreword by Joanne Carter)… “Looking at black and white iPhone photography using my street image ‘municipal’ as an example. Is that an old master giving us license to go crazy in post processing or is he referring to skilled composition and exposure at capture? The answer I think is…
Streets Ahead – Tired of Ads? Artist Acts Out!
Just posting this again as the link with attachment did not appear to work when I shared it directly with our Facebook group Streets Ahead. Not street photography per se but representative of street – fabulous idea! One that most definitely appeals to me and I’m sure it would to our readers here – imagine how beautiful the streets would be, graced with your wonderful artwork… See the complete article here
Portrait of an Artist – Photos of Childrens Bedrooms and What They Represent
Just posting this again as the link with attachment did not appear to work when I shared it directly with our Facebook group Portrait of an Artist. These images are incredibly powerful and quite hard hitting. See the complete article here.
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – March 30, 2014
We are delighted to publish this weeks Flickr Group Showcase it’s another outstanding one full of mobile photography and art from around the world this week. There are some truly fabulous street photography images, I think they’re still coming through from the 24hourProject that over 600 photographers were involved with last week – really stupendous. There are also some exceptionally sublime portraiture and still life and gorgeous conceptual images – I am sure you will love this. 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…
