Tool Apps For Photographers - Read Our Latest Article At DPreview.com

Our sister site, TheAppWhisperer.com has just had their latest article published at DPreview.com. This time we took a look at app tools for Photographers. Due to the proliferation of photography apps aimed at the casual user, it's becoming even harder to find specialised apps. In this article we introduce some excellent photographic tool apps that are sure to become popular with our readers.

We focused on apps that enhanced picture taking on the mobile phone before, but this time we've chosen to look at and highlight apps that serve to enhance photography with any camera, not just your mobile device. Many of these would be suitable for serious enthusiasts and professional image-makers, and while they’re likely to appeal to a much smaller market, this can often be reflected in the price.  

Don't miss it, click here to read the complete article at DPreview.com.

OnOne Software Update DSLR Camera Remote Professional iPhone Edition

OnOne Software now have three iOS DSL Camera Remote Professional apps in the app store, these include one full iPhone version, one lite iPhone version and an iPad HD edition too. OnOne have just updated the iPhone versions and we have detailed what's included below.

This app allows you to connect your camera to a WiFi enabled computer so that you can instantly adjust its settings, fire the shutter, review images, get a live viewfinder preview, even start video recording (in-app purchase required) using your Apple iOS device. With its advanced bracketing and intervalometers, makes shooting for animation and HDR incredibly simple.

What's New

Added support for new cameras
• Canon 60D
• Nikon D7000

Improved preview zoom and pan
Save a low res version of an image to your device
Start, monitor and stop video recording on supported cameras (in-app purchase required)

 

Important Note

DSLR Camera Remote requires the free server software on a Mac OSX or Windows host computer. You can download the server software from www.ononesoftware.com/iPhone.

 

Key Features

• Remotely fire your DSLR Camera over any WiFi network
• Remotely adjust your DSLR Camera settings like White Balance, Shutter Speed, Aperture and Exposure Compensation
• Image Review lets you see the image you just photographed from your DSLR Camera on your iOS device
• LiveView mode lets you see through the camera's viewfinder right on your iPhone or iPod touch (requires the use of a supported camera)
• Start, monitor and stop video recording on supported cameras (in-app purchase required)
• Intervalometer – This lets you create a custom self-timer or take up to 999 shots from as little as 1 second apart to up to 1 day apart.
• Auto Bracketing mode for expanded exposure brackets, perfect for HDR.
• Burst Mode for continuous shooting.
• Great for difficult camera angles where it is difficult to see through the viewfinder
• Use it for self-portraits, you can compose and review your shot without having to move to the camera
• Use it for remote firing at weddings and sporting events

Supported Cameras

Canon EOS
- EOS Rebel XT/350D/Kiss Digital N
- EOS Rebel XTi/400D/Kiss Digital X
- EOS Rebel Xsi/450D/Kiss X2
- EOS Rebel XS/1000D/KISS F
- EOS Rebel T1i/500D/Kiss X3
- EOS Rebel T2i/550D/Kiss X4
- EOS 20D
- EOS 30D
- EOS 40D
- EOS 50D
- EOS 60D
- EOS 5D
- EOS 5D Mark II
- EOS 7D
- EOS-1D Mark II
- EOS-1Ds Mark II
- EOS-1D Mark II N
- EOS-1D Mark III
- EOS-1Ds Mark III
- EOS-1D Mark IV

Nikon
- D40/D40x
- D60
- D80
- D90
- D5000
- D7000
- D200
- D300
- D300s
- D700
- D3
- D3x
- D3s

Note: Feature availability varies from camera to camera. Check the onOne website for details on your camera.

 

Download/iPhone Full $19.99
Download/iPhone Lite
Download/iPad HD $49.99

Top 10 Price Drops In The iOS Photography App Store - 02/21/11

Price drops are always occuring in the App Store, we're here to help you know what they are so you don't miss out on a bargain, take a look at these photography apps for example...

Xtrafolio Photo Portfolio Professional

This application provides you the possibility to personalise and the control to use your iPad as a professional photo Portfolio. With the Xtrafolio application your iPad will look as if it were designed especially for you.

Only you will be able to enter the hidden edit menu, with an optional passcode. You can change the way it looks, so it will fit your personal style. Change Background colours, change Folder colours even change Folder text colours. Add your Company Logo, use the optional Home Page where you can provide your client with information about you or your projects. Add a Watermark to the emailed images, add info to each image, change the sequence or delete images within Folders, the list is endless.

This is a must have app for any serious creative professional who want to use the iPad as a portfolio to show their work!

Half price $11.99/Download

Mega Camera

➤ All-In-One Multifunction camera app with MEGA Features
➤ On Sale For a Limited time ONLY
➤ Now with Geo-Tagging & Print option

Mega Camera is a full function camera app with over 25 customizable filters and effects that enables you to see the results LIVE before you take a picture. It also has a super fast burst mode and many photo editing features that enable you to create unique and fun pictures quickly and easily.

Whether you want to take sports photos or picture of kids, Mega Camera enables you to take up to 50 burst mode photos at rates of up to 20 shots per second, so you won't miss those special moments. You can also apply any of our filters and effects to all those photos as you take them and keep only the shots that you want.

You can also have fun with the live effects mode of Mega Camera, where you can watch a funny, distorted, or just different, world in full screen on your iPhone or iPod.

30% off $1.99/Download

GPS MapCard 2

GPS MapCard is FREE until 40,000 download for purpose of wide testing.

∙ Save your photo with map.
∙ Excellent quality with attention to detail.
∙ Automatically display the address where a photo was taken.
∙ Share MapCard on Twitter.

Now free/download

Photo.net Gallery

The online community of photo.net maintains extensive galleries of portfolios. These portfolios are from members who range from successful professionals to beginning photography enthusiasts.
In any case, the quality of images provided on photo.net is amazingly high and this application allows to you to view the tens of thousands photos available and browse through them in a leisurely way.

A photo.net account is not needed at all to use this application although an internet connection is required.

$1.99/Download

Time Lapse Photo Journal Pro (Upload & Share Videos)

Time Lapse Photo Journal makes it easy to create Photo Journals of your life by taking and adding photos of yourself, or your loved ones. Then you can play back the photos you take over the weeks, months and years, as Time Lapse video slideshows. And the video can be uploaded to Facebook and YouTube to share with your friends.

Now at $2.99/Download

MonoPhix HD

**-50% for an undetermined amount of time, grab MonoPhix HD while you can**

MonoPhix lets you quickly and easily create beautiful high contrast black and white scenes from your existing pictures. After opening an image you can use two sliders to adjust the intensity of light and shadow tones. Additional features enable you to apply vignetting, color your monochrome photo, set the alpha of the black & white to blend it with the colors of your original picture to get a magnificent effect and much more. MonoPhix HD is optimized for your iPad, is fun to use and produces beautiful results.

$0.99/Download

PhotoRaw

PhotoRaw for iOS is a viewer and developer for image files in raw format. Raw file formats from most camera manufacturers are supported, for example Nikon NEF files, Canon CR2 files, Leica DNG files, etc - see the product web site for a full list of supported cameras. PhotoRaw allows you to view these files at full 1:1 pixel resolution, even 16 mega-pixel plus images such as from a Nikon D3x or a Leica M9.

Most images viewers for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch are only able to display low resolution thumbnails of raw images, making it difficult to use the iPhone or iPad to evaluate and view raw files in the field. PhotoRaw changes all that. PhotoRaw incorporates a state-of-the-art AHD raw image demosaicing algorithm right into an iOS app. So now you can view every single pixel in a raw file, without needing a desktop machine or laptop.

50% Off

$9.99/download

GeoPhoto

Browse photos from around the world: just select an area in the map, select the number of results you want and click the search button.

Free for a limited time.

Download

Rick Sammon's Light It!

Rick Sammon’s Light It! is an iPad app that’s designed to help you make professional-quality digital SLR people pictures – without spending a small fortune on professional lighting accessories.

The app (packed with 1.5 GB of info) includes both video lessons and before/after photographs.

We suggest you download the app first to your computer and then transfer to your iPad.

Rick Sammon took the illustrative photographs with a range of digital SLR cameras – from entry-level to top-of-the-line models. While watching the video lessons, you’ll learn how pros photograph people indoors and outdoors, in bright light and in low light, at home and on location, and even in a studio. In looking at the photographs, you’ll see the effects of Rick’s recommended techniques.

50% Off

$4.99/Download

Photo Pool for iPad

Designed with photography teachers and photography clubs in mind (not casual browsing of flickr), Photo Pool allows you to view photos from your flickr groups and view the EXIF data, giving you some insight into the photographer's methods.

For those with an external display, such as a projector, Photo Pool will also display the photographs on that secondary display.

Free for a limited time/Download

Apple Updates Digital Raw Compatiblity For Mac OS X v10.6

Digital camera RAW formats retain more image information than JPEGs and can produce better results when used with imaging applications such as Aperture and iPhoto. Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard provides system-level support for digital camera RAW formats from the following cameras:

This update adds RAW image compatibility for the following cameras to Aperture 3 and iPhoto '11:

    •    Canon EOS Rebel T3 / 1100D / Kiss X50
    •    Canon EOS Rebel T3i / 600D / Kiss X5
    •    Olympus E-5
    •    Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100
    •    Pentax K-r
    •    Pentax K-5

It also addresses processing issues for the following cameras:
    •    Nikon D7000
    •    Nikon COOLPIX P7000
    •    Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1
    •    Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2

Hipstamatic iPhone Photography Exhibition - Don't Miss It

The Orange Dot Gallery, London
Exhibition: 14th January 2011– 31st January 2011
Launched in the summer of 2010, Hipstamatics.com is a blog dedicated to iPhone Hipstamatic photography. A beautiful online photo reel, it brings together and showcases some of the very best Hipstamatic shots from around the globe alongside some in-house originals.
People can scroll through the ever-expanding library of Hipstamatic shots and most importantly can share their own photos, submitting them for selection via Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter and e-mail.
From the hundreds of pictures on the blog the Orange Dot Gallery will showcase 157 prints – the same number as the amount of original analog cameras produced. A homage to both the history and future of Hipstamatics the exhibition will showcase some of the best works featured on the site to date, from both submitted snaps from around the globe and their own specially sourced and exclusive work.
A movement has started, opening up an opportunity for people around the globe to produce some outstanding lo fi photography all from their mobile phone. It’s a revolution that looks set to only continue to grow. Don't miss this outstanding exhibition.

To get directions etc, visit the OrangeDotGallery here

Let's Face It 7 - The Portraiture Award Competition

This is a wonderful competition to enter, photographers are encouraged to interpret the brief in the widest sense, portraying your subjects with emphasis on their identity as individuals. You may enter a single image or a series of up to six related images. Images can be of both people and/or animals. A private view and continuing exhibition of the winners work will be held at the Assembly Rooms in April 2011, this will be supported by a catalogue of the winning work.

Current LPA Entries - Entry Number 13247

Naga Baba, Kumbh Mela, Haridwar, India

Sleeping Beauties - War Torn US Paratroopers Asleep - A 9/11 Fitting Tribute?

On this day nine years ago the world was shocked to the very core with the 9/11 atrocities and yet still the soldiers continue 'our' war on terror.

In a somewhat reality check of the continuing madness of the world, Tim Hetherington, born in Liverpool, UK, who studied literature at Oxford University and later returned to college to study photojournalism and is now based in New York and is a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair magazine; spent 15 months between 2007 and 2008 along with reporter Sebastian Junger, shadowing Battle Company's Second Platoon, part of the Second Battalion of the US army's 503rd Infantry Regiment.

The journalists compiled their work into a documentary, Restrepo, and a book of photography, Infidel, both released next month, illustrating how they shared food, patrols and sleeping quarters with the soldiers. The longer the reporters stayed, the deeper their vista became. They discovered that these child-like dreamers could also weep over lost colleagues or explain to local villagers why they had wounded their children in a way that demonstrates more than the stereotypical muscle bound killing machines.

'Infidel' will be on show at Host Gallery, London EC1 from 20 September to 15 October, hostgallery.co.uk; the book will be published by Chris Boot on 7 October, priced £25. The documentary, 'Restrepo', goes on general release in the UK on 8 October 2010.

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Kelso, from Battle Company's 2nd Platoon, in the Korengal Valley

Specialist Luke Nevala

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