At last someone has produced a Photography Magazine that makes good use of the features available to iPad users!
I wondered when it would happen and now it has thanks to publishers Ilex.
If like me you have subscribed to a few online magazines only to be dissappointed when presented with a PDF type version of the printed copy of the magazine? Not only that but often every other page appears to be devoted to advertisements, even more than in the hardcopy.
Well if you follow this link you will be able to download this excellent magazine through iTunes and on to your iPad.
I can thoroughly recommend this great initiative – if you do try it let me know what you think?
I have just discovered a wonderful app for the iPad from Dragon software. If you hate two fingered typing and would prefer a quicker, more effective way of getting your text based information into your iPad then I highly recommend this very clever app.
In fact I have dictated this blog entry straight into my iPad and the results are truly amazing. I expected lots of errors and misspellings but apart from a few minor problems the app seems to work extremely well. You simply start the recording and speak into the inbuilt microphone and then press stop when finished.
Following a quick processing cycle your words magically appear on the screen. You can then use the keyboard to do any tidying up that may be necessary.
You can link the app to your email and / or social media so that you can update them verbally.
ipadforphotography»ipad-apps»photography One of the most successful online newspapers in the world the Huffington Post( What a great name! ) was founded in 2005 and taken over by AOL in 2011. It currently has a sliding interface that lets you scroll through stories similar to the excellent BBC news application. This app has an extraordinary loyal following often attracting several thousand comments .
The breadth of coverage is huge and although US based, with specific city coverage it is not inward looking and is useful as an supplement to other international coverage.
ipadforphotography»ipad-apps»Guardian Eyewitness If you love photography as I do you cannot fail to be impressed by this app from the English Newspaper the Guardian. Curated by the paper’s picture editors they are the best of the thousands of images coming into the their offices every day. Each image has a small caption which can be hidden if you prefer. However if you click on a button on the caption it will spin around revealing a a “pro photo tip”. These are short and to the point but nonetheless useful if you are not a very experienced photographer as you can pick up a few tips on how to approach and interpret the subject in the best way. You can also save an image that catches your eye as a favourite and also share it with otheres via the usual social media sites.
As a photographer I was really impressed with with Photogene on the iPhone. It allowed me to take quick photographs “on the fly” with my phone which I always carry with me. I could then make quite dramatic changes to the images using Photogene and then upload them to Facebook or the many other options for getting photographs online via mobile uploads. Here is an example of a photograph tweaked with Photogene that was taken, edited and uploaded during an early morning walk last year.
Well now there is the iPad version! With all that extra screen area available on the iPad and the vast array of tools in this application, editing photographs is a real joy. Have a look at the video from uTube and you will see what I mean.
Of course the iPad doesn’t have a built in camera so you need to get your image files across to the iPad first. There are so many ways to do this and I will cover that in a separate post. Many critics bemoan the lack of a built in camera but the iPad isn’t meant to be lugged around to take photographs now is it?
That would not be a very viable option at all!
I can see how a web cam would be useful but not a stills camera ….
There is an app that allows you to take photographs remotely, controlling the iPhone camera from the iPad which is pretty cool. I can see a few creative opportunities there which again I will cover in another post.
There are new applications appearing every day for the iPad and some really interesting ones for photographers and other visual artists … I will keep you posted on the best ones I find.
If anyone else has found a great app post a comment and share it.
The built in Ipad Photo App is incredibly simple and intuitive to use.
Steve Jobs said “it is the best device I’ve ever seen for enjoying and sharing photography.” Of course he is slightly biased ….
But there are truely some really nice features such as the ability to display albums of photographs as stacks of smaller thumbnail versions.
You can “pinch” and expand the stacks to see more before opening them completely and once opened each image will rotate to landscape or portrait format as you turn the device in your hand.
A bar of the thumbnails appears at the bottom of the screen and you can rapidly browse through these to locate a particular photograph.
Meta data from your PC or Mac will transfer across with your images allowing them to be sorted and if you use iPhoto on the Mac there is the option to sort by Event, Faces & Places as well.
With the iPad dock you can also use the iPad as a photo frame ( Portrait style only ). The slideshow options are also incredibly simple to use complete with background music added if you so desire.
