iOS 7 – ‘Be Prepared’
As the Scouts say ‘be prepared’ and today with the launch of the new iOS 7 upgrade for your iOS devices (if compatible), this is more important than ever. Whether your device is compatible or not is a key point actually, iOS 7 won’t run on the iPhone 3GS or earlier or the iPad 1 and some of the features will only work with the iPhone 5. If you take a look at Everymac.com you’ll see a listing of the precise iOS 7 features supported by each device from the iPad 2 to 5th gen iPod Touch. Perhaps the most important thing to do and remember is to BACK UP…
Samsung Unveils ‘My Galaxy’ Smartphone App
Samsung Electronics today announced the launch of My Galaxy, an application to help Samsung Galaxy owners get the most from their smartphones. The content of the app is uniquely tailored to offer the most personalised customer experience. Created in collaboration with Monitise Create, Europe’s leading mobile innovation agency, My Galaxy is packed full of features that truly unlock the benefits of being a Samsung customer. Customers can take advantage of a range of exclusive offers from film and music content, to tickets for live events. They will be able to learn about the latest accessories for any Samsung smartphone through the app’s m-commerce storefront, with access to over 300 products…
First Mobile Photography Exhibition in Poland
A brand new Mobile Photography Exhibition will take place in Poland on 21st September 2013. The photography exhibition “Mobile cities” (“Mobilne miasta”) is a first collective project organised by members of Mobile Photography Enthusiasts’ Group “Mobilni”. The theme of the exhibition is City Space. The exhibition will be held at The Bookarest Club, at Stary Browar, Poznan, Poland, between 11 am and 4 pm. The main purpose of the exhibition is to ‘consider mobile photography as an outright art’. An additional goal is to inspire donations to Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH). PAH’s “Pajacyk” is fundraising programme for hungry children in Poland and in the other countries all over the world.…
Mobile Photography – Tip Of The Day – Number 33
Welcome to another brand new section from your favourite mobile photography website and one of the most popular in the world. Today, we’re publishing our 33rd Mobile Photography/Art Tip Of The Day to our brand new section of the site. Every day we will publish a short quick tip to help you with your mobile photography, this may be related to editing your image, capturing your image, printing your image, all manner of things, across the complete photographic and art mobile genre – we’ll be featuring great mobile street photography tips, great blending tips, great cloning tips, we will cover it all from some of the greatest mobile photographers and…
PicTapGo/HD – Temporarily Free
PicTapGo for iPhone and HD for iPad is a popular iOS photography app with over 50 photo effects and also allows you to layer filters and save your own custom filters too. Usually the iPhone version retails for $1.99/£1.49 and the HD for $2.99/£1.99. Both can be picked up for free, for a limited time. Select your version below: PicTapGo/download PicTapGo HD/download
Full Burberry Prorsum Womenswear London Fashion Show – Shot Entirely iPhone 5s Devices
Last week Apple announced that Burberry would use iPhone 5s phones to video and photograph their London fashion show. We’ve attached the full version of the video of the show below. Earlier this week Pocket-Lint gained inside knowledge about how the show was shot. They interviewed Christopher Bailey, Burberry’s Creative Director, “Dotted around the room this year were 14 iPhone 5S smartphones recording and live streaming all the action to numerous destinations such as billboards and Burberry stores, as well as the usual social networking platforms like Facebook and Vine…There were nine iPhone 5S phones on the runway taking shots, three on a moving rail cam following the models, one…
2014 Sony World Photography Awards Judge shares what he’s looking for in this year’s competition
You have seen the call for entries to the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards but how can you make sure yours is the photograph that the judges choose? WPO gives you an exclusive insight into the thoughts of our 2014 Honorary Jury members and exactly what they are looking for in an award-winning image. This week, WPO interviews jury member Guy Harrington of Soho Management. In your opinion, what makes an award-winning image? What key elements will you look for in the entries to the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards? An image has not only to be beautiful but have something to say to be truly award-winning. It needs to…
Streets Ahead – Challenge 1 – Showcase
Welcome to the showcase for our first challenge, ‘Crouching’ (photographing street scenes/life from a crouching position). We hope that this will be the first of many challenges that will be run in the Streets Ahead group. The objective of the challenge is to help us collectively practice and perhaps learn some new techniques. Each challenge will be based either on a shooting technique or perhaps a theme. We would like Streets Ahead to be an interactive group, and for members to try to participate in the challenges. If you are a woman street photographer, please join our growing community. • Flickr Group (for weekly showcase submissions) • Facebook Group (for information sharing/discussions) "Keeping…
The Royal Photographic Society PORTFOLIOTHREE Now Available
PORTFOLIOTHREE is The Royal Photographic Society’s triennial publication showcasing the best of photography and imaging science associated with The Society over the past three years. The book’s 240 pages contain interviews and photography from Jason Bell, Joe Cornish, Ken Lennox, Bob Martin, Rinko Kawatchi, Joel Meyerowitz and Albert Watson; selected Licentiate, Associate and Fellowship distinction panels from members; work from bursary winners Neil Hall and Huw Wahl; selected images from The Society’s International Images of Science exhibition and Olympics competition; feature articles dealing with the 1826 Niépce plates in The Society’s Collection, photographic science and a celebration of The Society’s 160th anniversary; and, spotlights on areas of The Society’s activities…
The New Renaissance : A Glimpse Into The World Of Creative App Development By Sarah Jarrett
We are thrilled to publish our wonderful Columnist Sarah Jarrett’s latest article to her The New Renaissance Column. This section has a wide remit and takes the form of interviews with artists about their working techniques, looking at approaches to a particular theme by different artists, showcase some unusual collaborations between Sarah and other artists and offers insight into apps and their creative uses. Sarah herself explains, ‘I am really passionate about this whole area, I have my ear to the ground and guarantee to uncover some really inspiring ideas. This week Sarah interviews James Cuda Co-founder of Savage Interactive, the developers of the hugely popular Procreate app. This is…
