Streets Ahead – Thirty Third Edition – Mobile Street Photography
Welcome to the thirty third edition of “Streets Ahead,” a weekly column dedicated to women mobile street photographers. Each week we review and curate work that was submitted to our Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that 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) about Women Photographers/Artists and Street Photography, in general. So, if…
Letter to Jane – Fabulous Photography iPad Magazine
One area we have been thinking about adding to theappwhisperer.com for some time is reviewing and highlighting iPad Photography magazines. I don’t mean photo app review style magazines, I’m talking more about sophisticated state of the art digital photography magazines. There are many photography and art iPad magazines available but few that meet the criteria that we’re striving to cover here. Letter to Jane is the first one that we would like to acknowledge in this new series, as one reviewer put it ‘Letter to Jane is by turns surprising, delightful, sensual, engaging, and very smart. It creates a whole new magazine format, one totally unrelated to anything having to…
Portrait of an Artist Interview With Maria Flourou by Jennifer Bracewell
We are so excited and delighted to publish our first interview to our wonderful new Column ‘Portrait of an Artist‘ edited by Jennifer Bracewell. This is an outstanding interview, filled with great images too. Don’t miss this, over to you Jen, (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I first noticed Maria Flourou’s work on Instagram a couple of years ago. I was so impressed with her gorgeous work. Maria weaves wonderful tales with her introspective self-portraits. They are incredibly creative, thought provoking, sometimes a bit disturbing. She also does lovely portraits of her children and others. I chose Maria to be my first interviewee because I think she’s an amazing talent…
Apple Updates Most Affordable 9.7-inch iPad with Retina display – Drops iPad 2
Apple today announced iPad with Retina display replaces iPad 2 as the most affordable 9.7-inch iPad at $399/£329 for the 16GB Wi-Fi model and $529/£429 for the Wi-Fi + Cellular model. The fourth generation iPad features the amazing 9.7-inch Retina display, the Apple-designed A6X chip, ultrafast Wi-Fi, a 5MP iSight camera which also captures 1080p HD video, a FaceTime HD camera, and support for LTE carriers worldwide,¹ all while delivering up to 10 hours of battery life.² iPad with Retina display comes with iOS 7, featuring hundreds of great new features, including Control Center, Notification Center, improved Multitasking, AirDrop, enhanced Photos, Safari, Siri and iTunes Radio. To order at the Apple Store,…
Mobile Journalism – New Column Opening Soon on TheAppWhisperer.com
There are as many dimensions to mobile photography as their are traditional photography and that’s all good! To that end and coming from a Journalistic viewpoint as that is what I am in combination with being a Portrait Photographer, we have decided to open a new section within theappwhisperer – this will focus entirely on Mobile Journalism. The BBC as well as many other media outlets have supplied smartphones to many of their field reporters. It’s not all about photography, it’s about filming and recording too. It’s a huge area and one that we are going to fully embrace to ensure that you are kept up to the minute with…
Fourteen Female Photographers You Should Know Right Now…
PhotoShelter have put together a great article, highlighting fourteen outstanding female photographers and their work. Of course, this list is not exhaustive, we could add plenty more – specifically female mobile photographers that you should know now. Nonetheless, the creativity, style, ingenuity and integrity of these photographers is second to none. Perhaps, the one that hits home most to me, is the the work by New York based Sara Naomi Lewkowicz. ‘Sara rose to prominence with her domestic abuse essay in Ohio entitled “Shane and Maggie” while pursuing a Master’s degree at Ohio University. Like Donna Ferrato’s work from a generation prior, Lewkowicz bore witness to the often hidden violence…
iOS Photography App – Fast Camera – Temporarily Free Today
Fast Camera is just that, fast, the developers describe it as ‘lightning fast’ – perhaps – not sure how you measure that but it can shoot up to 1,200 pictures a minute. It’s a good solid, stable app packed with features including timelapse video, stop motion, timer and stealth mode. Usually Fast Camera retails for $4.99/£2.99 – click here to download for free.
Dragon Dictate 4 for Mac Giveaway – Each Worth $199/£124
Dragon Dictate for Mac, version 4 – the most powerful, accurate and personalised voice recognition software for the Mac available on the market today. Dragon Dictate for Mac, with convenient, customisable features, makes it easier and faster than ever to dictate and edit text and to control desktop and web applications, simply by speaking. Dragon Dictate for Mac has improved accuracy with new and improved speech recognition technology, and now features the ability to transcribe text from any single speaker’s pre-recorded audio file, combining both voice recognition and transcription offerings into one powerful product. We have several copies of this to giveaway, either digital codes or boxed and wherever you…
Global Roll Out of LG G Pro 2 Kicks Off in Asia
LG Electronics (LG) today announced the start of sales of G Pro 2 in the Asia Region in markets including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Philippine, Vietnam and Indonesia among others. The device was first introduced to a global audience at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month where the smartphone was well received for its innovative UX features, superb display and advanced camera functions. “With its 5.9-inch Full HD IPS display, versatile camera functions and user-oriented UX features, we expect the LG G Pro 2 to make a strong impression with Asian customers.” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “Asian consumers have…
iOS Photography App – CameraBag 2 – Temporarily Free Today
CameraBag 2 is a hugely popular packed with features. ‘CameraBag 2 is hi-fi, because it’s built on the same 32-bits-per-channel Analog Engine that powers CameraBag 2 for Mac/PC, designed for professional photographers. This means your photos retain their smooth color gradations even when they’re heavily edited’. Uusally CameraBag 2 retails for $1.99/£1.49 but today it’s free, click here to download.
