Exclusive Nokia Lumia Imaging Technology Brings Light Painting to Smartphones and the Masses
The evolution of digital photography has driven a fresh rise in the art of light painting, with the tools to capture and share these unique images becoming increasingly accessible. That goes one step further today with the latest work from leading light artists Ian Hobson of Newcastle, UK and Jeremy Jackson from Virginia, USA demonstrating how people can make stunning light art using a Nokia Lumia smartphone. Armed with a Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone, the artists have created a series of images and guide which are intended to inspire a new generation of smartphone light painters. All made possible by the exclusive 4 second shutter delay and superior low light…
iOS Photography App – OKDOTHIS – Updated
Since its launch in November last year OKDOTHIS has been growing in popularity. It is an ‘idea’ community – allowing artists to show their favourite images and creative ideas, known as ‘dos’, that led to it. The developers have just updated this app and it now has faster loading, there’s the facility to customise notifications and even the option to block users if you feel the need. There’s additional features too in this update and we have listed them below. This is a free update to a free app, to download/update, just go here. What’s New? – Faster loading everywhere, especially the Discover section. – Choose which notifications you…
iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – ‘PopAGraph’ Part 1 – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial this time it’s on the app ‘PopAGraph’ and is in two parts, this is part 1. We think you will really enjoy this, over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PopAGraph is free and here’s the link to download it “With some apps, it’s easier to show you what they do than to explain what they do. PopAGraph by Flambe Studios is one such app. As suggested by the name, the app allows you to “pop” part of your image out over a frame, as if the frame can’t hold it. Let’s show you an example so you can know…
Pencil by Fiftythree Giveaway!
We’re delighted (due to popular demand) 😉 to offer our readers an opportunity to receive one of two Pencils by Fiftythree in this giveaway. Pencil by Fiftythree the developers of the incredibly popular Paper iOS app have created a stylus that is incredibly exciting. It works with Bluetooth technology and connects to your iPad within the Paper app to offer some fabulous features that you wouldn’t ordinarily associate with a stylus/iPad app pairing. These include palm rejection – allowing you to draw whilst your hand rests on the iPad, use of an eraser at the top of the pencil, there’s also an additional an excellent finger blend mode. There are…
Photo Tool Apps – Taking A Look At Workflow For Mobile Photographers with Martin Duerr
We are delighted to publish this very interesting article by our Photo Tool App Editor, Martin Duerr. Our Photo Tool App section is brand new and one that we feel is incredibly important. This section is designed to essentially help you operate and utilize your DSLR’s, mirrorless and medium/large format cameras with specialised apps, as well as utilise your mobile photography workflow regardless of whichever platform you use. You can read more about our new Photo Tool Apps section here. In this article Martin offers some great advice for utilising your mobile photography workflow with your Nokia Windows phone as well as Apple iOS system. He recommends some great apps…
Mobile Camera Club – Opening of the first 3.0 gallery Paris, March 6 2014
We are very excited to bring you news that the Mobile Camera Club gallery will host the second edition of Mobile Photo Paris from March 6 to March 29 2014. One exhibition, two openings: Thursday, March 6 2014 from 6 PM Sunday, March 16 from 3 PM Located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, Mobile Camera Club will exhibit mobile photography in all its forms. The name of the gallery is a tribute to camera clubs and photographic societies, which were the real “test kitchens” of the early photographic years. It is also a reference to Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer and gallery-owner born 150 years ago, who was a real…
iOS Photography App – Waterlogue – Temporary Price Drop
Waterlogue was released in December 2013 and quickly rose to the number 1 spot in Japan and number 2 in the US app store. Over 150k copies have been downloaded so far. “The idea behind Waterlogue is that we wanted non-artists to be able to see the world as an artist might—to give people access to a creative tool that doesn’t require any training,” says Balestrieri, founder of Tinrocket, LLC. “We were inspired by what creative people like artists and architects carry with them for visually documenting the world when on-the-go: things like Moleskine watercolor sketchbooks and these little homemade kits of watercolor pigments stowed inside repurposed Altoids tins. The…
Blind Mobile Photography with the Apple iPhone – Photo Education & Accessibility Tutorial
We are delighted to publish the first tutorial to our brand new section within theappwhisperer – Photo Education & Accessibility. There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness (not many people know this, but I personally endure severe hearing loss) to many other difficulties that people suffer with, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. We are therefore delighted to welcome Luis Perez to theappwhisperer family as our Photo Education Editor. We recently interview…
New Photo Education/Accessibility Section Added To TheAppWhisperer
One area we are very keen on exploring and helping our readers with on theappwhisperer.com is photography education and accessibility. There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness (not many people know this, but I personally endure severe hearing loss) to many other difficulties that people suffer with, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. We are therefore delighted to welcome Luis Perez to theappwhisperer family as our Photo Education Editor. We recently interview…
Pinhole Assist – iOS Tool App Giveaway
We mentioned Pinhole Assist yesterday, see here, it’s an excellent companion to argentic pinhole and wet-plate collodion photography. The range of aperture and sensitivity (starting at 0.25 ISO) allows for wet-plate and slow processes as well as pinhole. Pinhole Assist is packed with predefined light measurement but there’s also manual override. There’s also a good deal of reciprocity charts included and new with this update, is the HOLD/Resume button for light meter. The app has also been redesigned for iOS 7 with enhanced usability and swifter access to the most common settings. Pinhole Assist has just had another update overnight to iron out a bunch of bug fixes. Pinhole Assist…
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