Aestetis’ photo app Lo-mob Superslides is now free for download in the App Store. The app’s original price tag was $0.99.
Many of you are probably familiar with Lo-mob, an app that has been around for a long time and that comes with a unique collection of filters and frames that range from experimental 35mm to instant and old analog. Differently from the classic Lo-mob and as the names suggests, Superslides is mainly dedicated to the slide format. The app includes controls to customize each filter’s setting separately. Thanks to a randomize feature users can produce different effects within the same format of choice, producing light leak, blur, color and frame variations.
The current offer will be valid for a few hours only.
In the course of today’s event at WWDC – Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced among other things the release of their new iOS 7. The latest operating system will bring major changes to the way users experience their iDevices, and iShooters will have their share of changes.
Among the new features the update to iOS 7 is going to introduce, iShooters should keep their eyes on a few interesting ones that will definitely affect the way they take, edit and organize their pictures closely. Continue reading “iOS 7 Brings New Features To Photos”
The weather has been crazy recently and here in Lisbon there were not many occasions to take summery pictures yet. This has nothing to do with the new extra pack released by Hipstamatic, but it has to do with the poor Portuguese who, like many others is Europe, are currently wondering why the weather gods have been so cruel to steal sun and the associated heatwaves they were eagerly expecting from under their noses. The Portuguese, and the Brazilian too, have developed high tolerance to heat; even when they complain about it, you know they are somehow giggling inside.
Image Blender is currently on sale. The app is 66% off its full price tag: previously $2.99 in the App Store, it is now only $0.99. There are a number of image blending apps available for iDevices, but if you are looking for simple features and lots of potential, Image Blender has all you will need.
EyeEm organized via its Ambassador Fernando Cruz an event for this Saturday, May 11. There will be a special phoneography masterclass followed by a scenic photowalk through the city of Lisbon. The event — aimed primarily at Eyeem members, but not restricted to them — will be of interest for mobile shooters in Lisbon and surrounding areas.
We talked about this many times before, but a few days ago I chanced upon a Flickr discussion where members were discoursing (again!) about weaknesses and merits of mobile cameras vs DSLR cameras. There were especially a couple of members negative about using mobile cameras in most instances. One of them said, “I never use my iPhone camera to take pictures, unless I want to take a random snapshot to share with my family. Because let’s admit it, the final quality of iPhone photos is pretty bad.” The other’s comment was along the same lines, “While you folks take badly lit pictures at concerts, with my DSLR I always take great images of which I will be proud also in a few years from now.” I was kind of bothered by such preposterous statements, not because I am a mobile shooter — I am a DSLR shooter as well — but because the whole notion that you need to compare things all the time is frankly annoying and devoid of any sense of imagination and actual understanding of photography as a form of expression.
So yes, a DSLR is a sophisticated camera that lets you perform all sorts of incredible tricks of photographic virtuosity by controlling all those fancy settings — the various aperture, shutter speed and ISO, and all that jazz. We can all agree on that. On the other hand, you cannot be serious or well-informed about how photography really works if you expect to take the same photo with a DSLR and a mobile camera. But you know what? Every camera is different and will let you make different pictures. There are always aspects you need to consider when bringing the right camera with you and there are things that a mobile camera can still do better than a DSLR. Here are some examples.
Repix 1.2 is out and with it come a few extras: first of all brushes and filters. The app is still free to download, but the latest extras are only available as in-app purchases.
Mike Roberts is an iPhoneographer who is mostly known under the moniker of Photomikro, an alias that in a way sums up not only Robert’s real name and his identity with it, but also his attention for the imperceptible and overlooked in every day’s life experiences and moods. Roberts’ photos are focused on cryptic absence and encompass a disparateness of genres and subjects; he often depicts scenes taken from places that seem familiar or actions that look habitual and then filters them through a dramatic emotional lens. Roberts’ photos seem to speak mainly about solitude and individualism, with lights and shadows that are as important as characters as are the faces, the inanimate objects and the forgotten places. To reinforce this sense of collected solitude, Roberts mostly relies on monochrome.
MacPhun’s FX Photo Studio for iPhone and FX Photo Studio HD for iPad are both free in the App Store right now. The FX Photo Studio has been available for free for some time now; the offer on the iPad version is starting today.
Sometimes it does take a little more than a one-tap effect to give your photo the look you are looking for; you have to work a harder for it. There are a thousand iOS apps available that let you apply artistic filters by just tapping on a single button, but there are also apps that will offer you instruments to process photos more creatively by overlaying them with organic effects and brush strokes. Yes, a bit like in painting, but not quite. Repix is one of these latter apps.
