Competition – National Geographic Traveller Photo Contest 2014
National Geographic are once again on the the lookout for your vision of the world through a lens. Last year they received thousands of UK entries and were truly impressed at the incredibly high standard of submissions. This year they’re back with more great prizes, new judges and fresh categories. Tour the site, see the existing entries, and then get snapping! You can enter photographs under one of six categories: Action, City, Iconic, Modern, Natural and People. For a bit more information on what the judges are looking for, take a look at the Categories section of the website. All submissions must be the entrant’s own work, and they must…
LG G PRO LITE MAKES ITS GLOBAL DEBUT
To fulfill the needs of practical smartphone users who want to enjoy the convenience of a large display, LG Electronics (LG) have introduced to the world its latest device, LG G Pro Lite, with a 5.5-inch display and unique UX features. In addition to its large IPS display, LG G Pro Lite features an equally large 3,140mAh battery, embedded Stylus Pen, stereo speakers and Dual SIM with a dedicated Hot Key. The phone is also designed with an ultra-narrow bezel for an incredible edge-to-edge viewing experience, slim design for optimal one-hand grip and convenient UX features shared with LG’s other premium G Series smartphones. “With LG G Pro Lite, we…
Competition – Photo Ambassador for 2014 – Mobile!
Following a survey commissioned by Celebrity Cruises* that a staggering 67% of people now take pictures on their mobile on holiday, the leading luxury cruise company has launched a search – alongside worldwide known and award-winning photographers – for the best travel photo ever taken on a smartphone. Surprisingly, Samsung is the leader in the mobile camera market with a 24% share of the overall market – 4% of those questioned were more likely to use the brand over an iPhone. Despite the much-hyped recent launch of the Lumia 925, Nokia and HTC proved the least popular at 6% each. The dominance of Facebook and Twitter seems to be a…
iPhone 5s Overview – Kevin Carter Reviews For DxO Mark & DPReview
Kevin Carter our Head of Technical Hardware as well as the Lead Technical Editor for DxO Mark and the British Journal of Photography among others, recently as tested the Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone, we mentioned that here. Kevin has also reviewed the Apple iPhone 5s too. Kevin says, ‘With a DxOMark Mobile score of 76 the Apple iPhone 5s ranks in second place to the inspirational Nokia 808 Pureview, and ahead of other notable camera-phones including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and the previous iPhone 5, which score 75 and 72 points in our smartphone rankings’. To read more of that review, go here. To read on dpreview including Kevin’s scientific…
Nokia Lumia 1020 Overview – Kevin Carter Reviews For DxO Mark and DPReview
Kevin Carter our Head of Technical Hardware as well as the Lead Technical Editor for DxO Mark and the British Journal of Photography among others, recently as tested the Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone. DPReview use Kevin’s scientific data in their reviews, as they say here, ‘We have added DxOMark’s Mobile Report to our camera review of the Nokia Lumia 1020. The report includes DxO Lab’s usual industry-standard scientific measurements and analyzes 14 aspects of mobile imaging including detailed image quality assessment, flash performance, autofocus reliability and more to calculate a final score’ Take a look at the DxO link here for Kevin’s review and interesting findings regarding the video capabilities.…
HiLO Lens – iOS App – Updated
HiLO Lens is a photography and video app specifically designed to work with the HiLO Lens hardware for iPhone and iPad (available as a separate purchase). The HiLO Lens hardware accessory consists of three glass lenses and a prism which allows the mobile photographer to shoot angles and perspectives that would be difficult under normal circumstances. This app has just been updated, check out What’s New below. This is a free update to a free app. Click here to download/update. What’s New? Continuous shoot mode added! – hold down shutter for 2 seconds – tap “Enable Delayed Shutter” NO – tap “Enable Continuous Shutter” YES Playing nice with iOS7 Stays…
Mobile Photography Flickr Group Showcase – TheAppWhisperer (TAW) – October 13, 2013
We have just finished curating this weeks’ Flickr Group Showcase, our 36th 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: Souichi Furusho, Connie Rosenthal, Elodie Hunting, Sarah Jarrett, Petyr Campos, Federica Corbelli, Karen Divine, Veronica Hassell, Jennifer Bracewell, Amo…
Tickle Your Fancy – #10 – NSFW
Welcome back to our tenth 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… ‘Healing Sgt. Warren’…
Psykosoft releases Psykopaint as standalone Mac App
Psykopaint 1.2.1 is a painting application with a twist, that allows you to paint while the colors are selected automatically based on a photo. Until now the app was accessible exclusively online and now as a fully packaged app for Mac. Psykopaint features 6 different brushes, with 72 built-in presets and so much more. Sporting a complete redesign of the interface, version 1.2.1 introduces support for Retina Display, an improved mad cannon brush, fixes canvas zoom issues and more. The app has been used widely as a tool for art teachers and as an art therapeutic tool. The web version receive more than a million visits per month, created an…
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World Photography Organisation – NEW – Photography book blog by Cheryl Newman
As members and contributors to The World Photography Organisation we were delighted to read Cheryl Newman’s blog this month. Cherly is the Photography Director at Telegraph Magazine. You can read an interview with her, that’s actually quite old here from Professional Photographer magazine, another publication that I used to write for, incidently. In this article Cheryl reviews Vanessa Winship’s latest book ‘She dances on Jackson’ – it’s a fabulous read and this paragraph fulfils me with imagery ‘Winship’s portrait make her subjects feel like beguiling strangers, whether they are the young girl with carrier bags in a barren vacant lot wearing a single string of beads, teenage love birds joined…
