PictureBook – ‘Compass Ways’ – By Benamon Tame
We’re delighted to publish Benamon’s 27th article to his PictureBook column with us and once again, it is outstanding, gushing with creativity and imagery both in pictures and words, don’t miss this. The concept behind the PictureBook column is not just about capturing stories but creating them, the journey behind and the image we present. PictureBook draws on Images selected from Benamon’s own story series and also looks at the work of the other story tellers within the community’. Over to you Benamon (foreword by Joanne Carter)… ‘Compass Ways -The Myrme’ – ©Benamon Tame The music played faintly behind them, ever fainter as they moved through the empty hall.…
Mobile Photography Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – November 10, 2013
We have just finished curating this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase, our 40th of the year and once again, it is outstanding and full of incredible mobile photography and art. It is a joy to curate and a pleasure to view. 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 be viewed on Flickr by clicking on the relevant artist below: kCe7, Clint Cline, Tracey Renehan, Shel Serkin, Cedric Blanchon, Albion Harrison-Niash, Stephanie Roberts, Federica Corbelli, Lee Thatcher, Sarah Jarrett,…
Tickle Your Fancy – #14 – NSFW
Welcome back to our fourteenth 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… Image – ©Penelope…
Diesel Fashion Shoot – Shot Entirely With An iPhone
Macworld have picked up a story relating to Diesel’s latest fashion shoot by British Photographer Nick Knight, shot entirely with an iPhone. Diesel’s Artistic Director, Nicola Formichetti then edited the images directly on the iPhone with relevant photo editing apps. A spokesman for Diesel was quoted as saying, “That it hoped to capitalize “on the multitude of photo and video apps available today to bring images that reinvent the way consumers perceive the brand’s aesthetic and as a nod to the future of fashion image construction.” We hope to uncover more about this story and will report back…
DxO Perspective – New Photo Mac App – Updated
This is an update to a week old app from DxO Labs, essentially the same company that our Head of Technical Hardware, Kevin Carter, writes for as their Lead Editor for all manner of cameras, lenses and mobile smartphones – relating to photography. With DxO Perspective, you can correct any perspective issues in your images in just a few clicks. A skewed building? A tilted horizon? Simply place the anchor points along the lines you want to fix, and your image instantly achieves a more natural look. Automatically corrects even the most complex perspective problems: • Several correction tools adapted to different kinds of photo compositions • Horizon recovery •…
ProCam – Temporarily Free
ProCam is temporarily free today, we’ve published many tutorials here at theappwhisperer.com to help you utlise this app. If you’ve missed those, please go here. Usually ProCam retails for $0.99/£0.69 but if you’d like to pick it up for free, just go here.
SnowLizard Solar Powered iPhone Case And Charger – From A Mobile Photography Perspective
We’re delighted to publish this excellent insight into two wonderful pieces of kit for your iPhone. One is an extreme solar panelled, rugged case and charger, whilst the the other is an independent fully rechargeable battery supply, exactly what you need for mobile photography. Nettie Edwards our Award Winning Mobile Photographer and Contributor sets out to find the perfect battery charger and falls in love with a couple of lizards, over to you Nettie (foreword by Joanne Carter). One of the biggest frustrations of Mobile Photography must be phone battery life, or, to be more precise, the lack of it, particularly when spending long hours out and about,…
Virgin Media Celebrates Short Film Making With Virgin Media Shorts 2013 Awards Ceremony Tonight – We Attend Red Carpet Event!
We’re delighted to publicise that Virgin Media will announce the winner of the sixth Virgin Media Shorts competition at a prestigious red carpet awards ceremony tonight and I will be covering this event on behalf of theappwhisperer.com. The annual event, this year held at the iconic BFI IMAX cinema in London’s Waterloo, is billed as the biggest short film competition in the UK with the aim to find and mentor the next big thing in British filmmaking. The short list includes 13 films, the last of which was picked based on ‘Twitter buzz,’ and all are available to view online via the Virgin Media Shorts website, along with dozens of…
Streets Ahead – Twenty Sixth Edition
Welcome to the twenty sixth 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…
iColorama – iOS Photo App – Updated
iColorama is a hugely popular app for mobile photographers wanting to enhance their images. We have published several tutorials here at theappwhisperer by Jerry Jobe demonstrating some of its attributes. This latest update includes a new flow, Simplify, Edges and 200+ new textures. This is a free update if you have previously downloaded this app, if not, you can do so here. It retails for $2.99/£1.99/download.



























