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Streets Ahead – Visual Diary Article – ‘Look in Glass: Part II’
Before sharing our featured story… we want to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone for their submissions to Backspaces! It’s been such a privilege to read (and learn about) everyone’s visual explorations… and we really wish we could highlight all of them. But unfortunately, we have space for only one and this is published every Thursday on the main TheAppWhisperer.com site. So please make sure to visit our page (http://www.backspac.es/tag/theappwhispererstreetsahead) on the Backspaces app to see all the work that is being done. And also, please continue to tag your stories with #theappwhispererstreetsahead, so that we can find them… and enjoy them and feature them here! For the first…
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Pinhole Assist – Our Daily App Giveaway
Welcome once again to our Daily App Giveaway section of theappwhisperer. We value our readers so much and that’s why we want to share our love of apps with you. Each day we give away free apps, better make us your home page 😉 Today, we’re giving away the newly updated Pinhole Assist apps, each worth $2.99/£1.99. Pinhole Assist is your 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. • Compute exposure time; • Use built-in exposition timerand bubble level for optimal shot; • Measure light, ,global measure or spot-meter;…
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Mob-Entrepreneurs – American Aperture Awards – Call for Mobile Entries
We set out our new section on TAW a few days ago and Mob-Entrepreneurs is becoming a very busy space. It’s a special are where we can highligh all of the many fabulous ventures that mobile photographers and artists are involved in. You can find out more about it here. Bob Weil and Daria Polichetti (iPhoneArt.com) have been invited to be jurors for the mobile component of the American Aperture Awards. It is not primarily a mobile arts competition. Founded by Chris Davies, the publisher of Fabrik Magazine in LA (a former LA photography gallery owner) and a select collection of art books, AX3 should be an interesting new addition…
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HTC One – The Print – Does ‘Megapixel’ Size Really Matter?
Well this is very impressive, I admit, I like the HTC One and have one sitting in our labs right now, I also recently attended a fabulous Press Event with HTC and Getty Images displaying impressive street football photographs from professional Getty photographers around the world taken with the said smartphone – see here. SpittingImages have actually put the HTC One and megapixels to the test, despite the meagre 4MP of the HTC One the lens quality, sharpness of the image and quantity of light captured are also significant points. Megapixel size is not everything, in this case and they did work it but SpittingImage have printed out some very…
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Kuster – D Day – June 6th 1944 – By Kevin Kuster
We’re delighted to publish Kevin Kuster’s latest article for his Kuster Column with us. This time Kevin discusses a very poignant moment in history and having visited these very beaches in France myself and the nearby graveyards too, I know only too well how important it is to remember this day and those that gave their lives. Although, at the moment, I don’t have the book that Kevin described below, I do have this one, and it’s very much cherished. Over to you Kevin… (foreword by Joanne Carter). D Day. June 6th 1944. “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you are NOT close enough.” –Robert Capa. ‘On this…
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The B&H Photo iPad App – New
B&H launches new iOS Photo iPad app, ‘the B&H Photo iPad app provides a user-friendly interface that allows you to browse and purchase items from B&H, effortlessly. Does it do a better job than other store-based apps? Check out the intuitive controls and smooth animations, complemented by a clean, uncluttered design, and judge for yourself. The B&H Photo iPad app enhances your online shopping experience with B&H, especially while you’re on the go’. You can read more about this app below, and if you’d like to head over and download it straight away, go here. The first thing you’ll notice about the B&H Photo iPad app is that clean…
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Aperture for Mac – Updated
‘Aperture combines the control and speed pros want for demanding photo tasks with the easy learning curve iPhoto users need to step up to an advanced photo tool. It has been fully optimized for the Retina display on the new MacBook Pro, letting you browse and edit high-resolution images with remarkable clarity and resolution. And with a new unified photo library, you can now move seamlessly from iPhoto to Aperture — and back — without having to import, export, or reprocess your photos. Aperture is packed with innovative adjustment tools to refine your images, including a revolutionary Auto White Balance that uses skin tones to correct color casts, and a professional Auto Enhance that…
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HarrisCamera – Temporarily Free
Don’t miss this opportunity to pick up the popular HarrisCamera app for free today, it allows you to recreate the "Harris Shutter Effect’ on your iPhone. Normally this app retails for $0.99/£0.69 but click here to pick it up for free.
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parallel II perspectives – By JQ Gaines and Catherine Restivo – Eighth Edition
We are delighted to publish the eighth edition of the wonderful parallel ll perspectives column of Catherine Restivo and JQ Gaines. In this article, they both visited the same delightful location at the same time and captured images in paraellel but singularly. We have created two separate screen shows of both of their images along with their own individual tutorial audio to demonstrate this entirely. We really hope you enjoy this wonderful article today in this very popular Column, many thanks to Catherine and JQ for their excellent work. We have included all the still images and links to the app store incase you feel inspired to try some yourself.…
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The Art of the Post with @nasyakopteva Via Instagram
I was delighted to come across this fabulous article on the Instagram blog yesterday. It features Nasya Kopteva (@nasyakopteva) and details the wonderful mail art that she creates today. Nasya and her friend Sasha exchange ‘painted post stories and try to surprise and delight each other’. Nasya explains, “I am a completely visual person. For me, Instagram is the most convenient way to freeze moments and share visual information–energy, feelings and beauty—with others who are in search of it.” Take a look at some of the examples of their beautiful art below. I love their friendship and I love how they are using modern technology combined with traditional materials to…