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…
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…





























