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Download Our Free iPad Photo Book: ‘Mirror, Mirror’

// July 12th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // iPad Photo Books

We’re pleased to announce the arrival of our very first iPad photo book: ‘Mirror, Mirror’.

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Featuring nearly 30 full screen self-portraits from 28 fantastically talented photographers, ‘Mirror, Mirror’ is now available to download totally free of charge.

Why an iPad Photo Book?

Well, because photos look truly amazing on it, for starters. I was totally blown away by the quality of the screen, and the tactility of it – being able to ‘pinch in’, swipe across, turn the iPad over to show a friend opposite… the list in endless. The iPad really is a fantastic medium to devour photography.

OK, you like the iPad, we get it. But why create this photo book?

Good question! I’ve had my iPad for a while now, and I thought there would have been plenty of fantastic photo books for it… but there just aren’t! Sure, there are a few photo book-type apps on the app store, but, frankly, they’re just not very good, and there are only a couple. Browsing photo websites on the iPad is fun, but I also wanted something to view when I’m offline, something that I can keep in my virtual library to whip out whenever I want a high-quality photo fix. So, I contacted some of the amazingly talented photographers on Flickr to see if they would be open to contributing, and, a couple of weeks later, created our very first photo book.

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Great iPad App To Improve Your Photography: Guardian Eyewitness

// June 7th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // iPad Photo Books, iPad Photography Apps

Right, first off, a little apology: I haven’t posted in about a month! That is absolutely awful, and will not happen again. I did have a very good reason for this lack of updating, though, as I have just moved into my very first house, and have been without internet access for far too long…! I know, excuses, excuses…but it won’t happen again, I promise.

Anyways, this will be a pretty short post, as I’m still really busy with trying to make my house livable – so much to do! – but I wanted to just write a little about a fantastic free app for the iPad – called Guardian Eyewitness (available to download from iTunes here).

Guardian Eyewitness iPad App

As this site is all about learning photography, anyone who is reading this and owns an iPad (or is thinking of making the splurge – I heartily recommend it, the screen is fantastic, so amazing to view photos on) should definitely get this app. Basically, it’s an app that showcases the fantastic photography from the Guardian (a UK newspaper), and when you first get the app, it will download the latest 100 photos, and each day after that you’ll get a brand new spanking one delivered direct to your iPad.

Now, not only are the photos themselves fantastic, looking absolutely amazing on the iPad’s beautiful screen, but along with each photo you get a ‘Pro Tip’, explaining just how that particular photo had been taken. That’s right, you’re getting fantastic photos, updated daily, and with photography tips too – all for free! I just love it.

The ‘pro tips’ are all really useful, and range from comments such as ‘the photographer used a high vantage point to capture the entire scene’ to ‘the photographer has used a tripod and a slow shutter speed rather than flash to capture the low light conditions’. The app is a bit similiar to the ‘Great Photo Collections (And How They Were Taken)” section on this website, but these are obviously from some of the world’s top professionals (and you get a photo/tip a day – no excuses of moving house from this app!)

So, enough of my warbling. Got an iPad? Love photography? Get the Guardian Eyewitness App!