Pencil by Fiftythree – Winners Announced
We are so pleased to announce the winners of our recent Pencil by Fiftythree stylus competition – if you missed the details of that, please go here. We asked readers to submit their wonderful creations to our Instagram section for this competition – #theappwhisperer_pencilcomp – we then explained that the two winning images that achieve the most likes will receive a Pencil by Fiftythree. We received some really fabulous entries and we send many congratulations to @viigge (Victor Sillanpaa) and @gericentonze (Geri Centonze) for their winning artwork. We will be in contact to obtain further details and the prizes will then be sent to you in due course. Thank you…
Samsung GALAXY S5 : Official Hands On Video
The new Samsung GALAXY S5 with its modern design, vivid color options, advanced camera, fastest network connectivity, dedicated fitness tools and enhanced protection features, the new GALAXY S5 delivers what matters the most to users. This video below goes hands on to take you through the latest generation of the GALAXY S series. The Galaxy S5 goes on sale on April 11 in most of Samsung’s major territories, including the US and UK. The Samsung GALAXY S5 comes with a 16-megapixel sensor, some new modes and a reworked HDR function (compared to its predessor the S4). The camera sensor is 1/2.6inch – significantly larger than most. The autofocus is an…
iOS Photography App – PicsPlay Pro – Temporary Price Drop
PicsPlay Pro is a popular photo editing app for your iOS device. It comes with over 200 filters and 10 themes. It’s a powerful editing app, usually it retails for $3.99/£2.99 but today you can pick it up for $0.99/£0.69. Click here to download.
iOS Photography App – ProCam 2 – Temporarily Free
We’ve featured ProCam 2 many times on theappwhisperer, it’s a popular app, take a look here and you’ll see many tutorials. Usually ProCam 2 retails for $0.99/£0.69 but today you can pick it up for free. Just click here to download.
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – March 9, 2014
We have just published this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase and it’s one that is full of elegance, grace, style and emotion. We start with a fabulous image from Lorenka61 entitled ‘Broken Dreams’ and this sets the scene as we take you through some incredibly powerful portraiture. It then leads us deeper into some outstanding street photography, through to beautiful architecture and into some spectacular landscapes and seascapes. We then explore some fabulous still life images and end on a very spiritual note. We really hope you enjoy this journey today, it is a true pleasure to bring this to our readers every week. It embodies all that we strive for…
Tickle Your Fancy – #28
Welcome back to our twenty eighth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections… Should Photography…
Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 22 – By Donna Donato
Welcome back to the twenty-second article in the Column, Mobile Movies. We at TheAppWhisperer have been inspired by the Flickr upgrade of 1 Terabyte of storage for everyone and have wanted to launch a mobile movie section for some time. Now seems to be perfect, the new Flickr upgrade will allow for a full three minutes of 1080p HD quality video per single film and you can have as many as you have storage space for. Each week I (you can find me on Flickr here) will curate the movie uploads to our new Flickr group –MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer – I will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the chosen ones. ”The…
‘Impossible’ Interview with Julien Grenet – ‘Des Polas et des Mains’
We’re delighted to be working closer with The Impossible Project team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and…
iPhone Photography Technical Tutorial – VectorSNAP and iColorama: Step-by-Step Pop Art – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial, this weeks tutorial is with the VectorSNAP app along with a step-by-step procedural for using the output of VectorSNAP as a mask. I think you will enjoy this very much, over to you Jerry. (foreword by Joanne Carter). “About a week ago, a friend alerted me to the app VectorSNAP, which creates a black and white version of your images – solid black and white – with smoothed edges. This image can either be saved as a normal image file or as a vector file that can be adjusted with desktop products like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape. However, the first thing I…
New Kyoto HipstaPak from Hipstamatic
Ohhh you may or may not have been expecting this but there’s a brand new HipstaPak from Hipstamatic – the Kyoto pak. The colours are intensive with this pak and give a very unique look. Take a look at the pack shots below. The new Kyoto HipstaPak is available now in the Hipstamatic store. It retaills for $0.99/£0.69. You need to purchase Hipstamatic first, if you haven’t you can pick it up here. It retails for $1.99/£1.49/download.
