StreetVIEW – ‘Eating and Drinking in Vienna’ by Laura Peischl
We’re delighted to publish Laura Peischl’s latest article to her StreetVIEW Column. This time Laura walks the streets of Vienna, poised to capture the decisive and poignant moments of people within their natural environment. At the end of the still images you will find a video of them altogether – hope you enjoy this. Over to you Laura… (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I came to Vienna for 10 days in January and I am still here since over one month…. so now I am kind of artistically cheating on my beloved Valletta. 🙂 Walking the streets of the city I tried to capture for this column, people engaged…
‘Impossible’ Interview with Jun Akaike – Head Of Impossible’s Japanese Operations
As you know we’re working closer and closer with the team at the Impossible Project 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. Today we are publishing the third of a series of articles and interviews related to the Impossible Project, ones that we feel you will really enjoy. If you have missed our others, please go here. This article features Jun Akaike, Jun has been the head of Impossible’s Japanese operations since December,…
iOS Photography Tool Apps – Pinhole Assist – Updated
As many of our loyal readers will be aware, we have a brand new section to theappwhisperer.com entitled Photo Tool Apps and we have a fabulous editor Martin Duerr heading this up. You can find out more about this new section here. Pinhole Assist is 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…
Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – February 16, 2014
This weeks Flickr Group Showcase is totally absorbing, full of outstanding images, many focusing on the climatic conditions of the week around the world, from heavy snow in the US to the floods in the UK. Many of you have sought refugue indoors and have captured the most beautiful portraiture, still life’s and macro images, all completely mesmerising set to the most seductive French vocals and music by Andrea Wittgens. 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 Showcase Sponsors – Olloclip.com Each image can…
Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 20 – By Donna Donato
Welcome back to the twentieth 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…
Getty Images – Creative Grants Offered With Additional Award of $20k for Work that Focuses on Empowering Women and Girls
As you will be aware we are expanding at a rate of knots here at theappwhisperer.com to ensure that our readers are fully aware of as many opportunities as possible relating to their mobile photography and art. One of our new areas will bring you details of creative grants and residencies available throughout the world for artists. We’re starting today with an outstanding opportunity from Getty Images. They offer two grants of $20,000 to non profit organisations each year but this year inspired by their partnership with Lean In, they have made available an additional $20,000 to be shared by the photographer and creative agency whose joint proposal is to…
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition with Mobile Category – Deadline Approaching
As avid followers of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition for more years than we care to remember we were delighted to learn last year that the organisers have added a mobile category for smartphone photographers aged 17 and under, called WILD-I, hopefully this will be rolled out within the adult category too at a later stage, we mentioned it here. Since then, the organisers of the competition reached out to Nettie Edwards and Dan Burkholder to provide inspiration to new smartphone photographers and you can read the interview here. The Competition is now in its 50th year but there are only 12 more days to get your entries…
Nokia Introduces the Nokia Lumia 1320 ‘Phablet’ to the UK
Nokia introduces its larger than life Lumia 1320 to the UK market, bringing many of the high-end Lumia innovations to a 6-inch screen smartphone at a significantly lower price point. The latest imaging features, like Nokia Camera and Nokia Storyteller, the most loved Lumia experiences such as global mapping and location services from HERE, together with unlimited streaming of ad-free music with Nokia MixRadio, all come packaged together to offer consumers a compelling choice in a larger-screen smartphone. Nokia Lumia 1320 goes on sale in the UK from February 24th and will be available from EE, Virgin Mobile and Carphone Warehouse as well as online retailers and independent distribution channels.…
iOS Photography App – Romantic Photo – Temporarily Free
Romantic Photo by Jixipix is temporarily free today, for both the iPhone and iPad/HD. Romantic Photo is said to add a romantic mood and ambiance to your images’. So, if you need that little bit extra today, why not download this app, we’d love to see what you create. Both links are below: iPhone – usually retails for $1.99/£1.49/download iPad/HD – usually retails for $2.99/£1.99/download
Happy Valentines Day from The App Whisperer
Wishing you a very Happy Valentines Day, all our readers. columnists, contributors and supporters are very much loved and thank you also for all the personal and beautiful messages I have received today. xxx
