“Facebook Camera is only for interacting with Facebook. Instagram has its own social network for connecting with friends, but the app also lets you post images to Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Flickr, and other online services. If you want photos to go beyond Facebook’s servers, you’ll want to stick with Instagram (or other similar apps, like Hipstamatic or Camera+).” — Chris Foresman, from Ars Technica, writing about Instagram and Facebook Camera
Facebook Camera tops Instagram at App Store
Interesting, this idea of these two apps competing…
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Photography vs. iPhoneography at art center exhibit -
Wow, I’d love to see this. Unfortunately, it’s at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, just outside DC, only until May 31 (and, as it happens, I’m traveling down there the day after). Oh, well.
Here’s the scoop from the Washington Post: “The exhibition pairs images shot on iPhones with ones from more traditional cameras and raises interesting questions: What makes a photograph art? When is a camera not a camera? And what is the definition of ‘artist’? Sometimes it’s easy. The telltale square format and fake faded snapshot border of Therese Brown’s untitled landscape, for instance, are a dead giveaway to the picture’s Hipstamatic provenance. Other times, it’s a little more tricky.”
LightBomber lets you create light paintings with your iPhone camera
I’ve loved creating light paintings with cameras ever since I was a 15-year-old with a Konica T4. My friend Scott and I would light sparklers and leave the shutter open on my Konica to produce these wonderful-looking images. I can still remember the thrill of seeing those photos, with their ethereal light trails, coming back from the photo lab. We’d use flashlights of various types, lamps, fireworks — just about anything to paint with light.
But with the iPhone? It’s not so easy. But now there’s LightBomber, an app that’s devoted to creating light trails and light graffiti. I’m just starting to experiment with it, but it is very, very cool, and I’m looking forward to seeing what iPhoneographers do with it.
Photoville seeking Kickstarter funds for Brooklyn Bridge Park project
“Photoville is a new Brooklyn-based photo destination - a veritable village of freight containers transformed into temporary exhibition spaces, taking place this summer from June 22 to July 1, 2012.”
Learn more at the Kickstarter page.
Will iCloud soon have “shades of Instagram”?
That’s how the LA Times put it, citing reports about changes to iCloud expected in June. The changes would make it possible “to share and comment on photos and not just sync them on their own devices,” the report says.
“This upgrade sounds as if it would blend a little of the social element that is part of Instagram’s magic with the previous functionality of iCloud’s troubled predecessor, MobileMe,” The LA Times writes. “The now-defunct service did allow subscribers to create, upload and share galleries of both video and still photos through an app and online.”
Excited to see my book as part of a Mother’s Day display at the local bookstore, Words.
“Maybe photography can’t live up to experience. Maybe photography steals away – or sullies – the preciousness of memory. After reading “Photographs Not Taken,” those moments of hesitation, so warmly shared, are far more arresting than some of the most engaging photographs.” — From an article about the book Photographs Not Taken
Andy Ihnatko: Results make up for awkwardness of iPhoto for iPad -
The bottom line: It takes time to learn, but it’s worth it.