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Internet talk show iPhoneographers Talk, featuring Guy Yang and and Jack Hollingsworth is online and available now. Guy is the creator of The Beginner’s Lens and iPhone Camera Essentials websites. Jack Hollingsworth is an Austin, Texas-based commercial photographer who brings his passion and over 30 years of photographic experience to the art of iPhoneography.

This episode features Richard Gray, who launched the Kensington Chelsea iPhoneography course in London which has been much talked about online. He tells about his course and discusses whether an iPhoneography course is actually relevant (considering many phoneographers believe mobile photography is really easy). Also mentioned in this episode is the Daniel Berman’s MPA exhibit now showing in San Francisco.

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If you’re in or near San Francisco this weekend, be sure to stop by the San Francisco Fine Art Fair which will be open throughout the weekend.

Tomorrow, Friday May 18, I’ll be appearing as part of a panel discussion on “The Everyday Revolution Of Mobile Photography” along with The MPA’s Daniel Berman and iPhoneArt.com’s Daria Polichetti.

More info after the jump.

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When we first reviewed Picfx, it was a quirky little square format photo app with a fairly straightforward number of filter effects. It’s grown into a pretty versatile square format photo effects app with a large number of filter presets, adjustments and other new tools that make it worth a look for square format iPhoneography.

The new update has just been released and adds a number of new effects, a new icon, and a capital “P”. The app is no longer called picfx.

More after the jump. >>>

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But, at least it’s getting closer….

100 Cameras in 1 is the texture app with an interesting interface, some funky Zen sounds and very obscure and frustrating filter names. It was one of the first photo apps to make iPhoneography a game and also one of the first to directly save to Instagram. Unfortunately, it’s one of the last major photo apps to support the iPhone 4S.

The new 3.1.4 update has just been released. After just seven months, 100 Cameras in One comes close to supporting full, square format resolution of the iPhone 4S. The new version now supports “higher resolution choices” on an iPhone 4S — that’s 4 MP images or 2048×2048 pixels. This is an improvement over the 1200×1200 px resolution of the previous version, but still less than the 2448×2448 pixels that nearly every other non-Instagram replacement offers.

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When I found out that the Awesomizer tool of the excellent Camera Awesome was built by Athentech, I was worried that spelled the end of life for one of my favorite photo apps, Perfectly Clear. The long lapse between update didn’t help much to dispel my fears.

The new 2.4 versions of Perfectly Clear for both iPhone and iPad have finally hit the App Store today. They are both loaded with a lot of goodness, including a sale price reduction and a lot of bug-fixes. Regardless of the iPhone or iPad you use, regardless of any other photo fixer you may have, Perfectly Clear is an app that should be in your iPhoneographer’s toolbox and should be a first step in any image processing.

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The iOS 5.1.1 update was quietly released by Apple today. It’s mainly a bug-fix release, but there is one new fix that is of interest to iPhoneographers. The new update “Improves reliability of using HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut”.

More on this update after the jump. >>>

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LensLight features a variety of lens light effects including light Leaks, bokeh, spot lights, and surface glare. There are even a few lens flare effects added in. There are some crossover effects, but not many, including a few similar (not identical) spikes and streaks. LensLight is more about external light effects than its sibling.

LensLight, the sibling app to the popular LensFlare photo app, recently received a big update. Read more about the update and how you can win a free promo code for the app after the jump. >>>>

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Photographer Trey Ratcliff’s 100 Cameras in 1 is a texture app with an interesting interface and, for me, very obscure and frustrating filter names. It incorporates zen sounds and various textures. It’s one of the first photo apps to make iPhoneography a game. It was one of the first photo apps to directly save to Instagram.

Version 3.1.3 has just been released. It’s got a minor bug fix, but the major bug of the app still has not been addressed over six months later. The app is not fully iPhone 4S compatible. And I’m talking about the full, $1.99 version.

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Apple has been varying degrees of ambivalent when it comes to the Volume Shutter or VolumeSnap feature on the iPhone. Volume Shutter is the feature that allow developers to use a Volume button as a hardware shutter release for the camera.

Since the release of iOS 5, Volume Shutter has become a popular feature in third party camera apps. New evidence has come up that Apple is about to restrict the feature… again. VolumeSnap and the Volume Shutter feature may be on it’s way out for good, or at least until developer and user uproar cause Apple to figure out a position on this feature.

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SQUARE OFF Photo Contest Winner, "My city" by Melinda Lee

Life in Lofi and CanvasPop are pleased to announce the winners of our SQUARE OFF photo contest.

The winning image as voted by the most readers is “My city” by Melinda Lee. Melinda gets a 20″ x 20″ canvas from CanvasPop and we’ll be contacting Melinda to feature more of her other iPhone photography here on the blog.

Click past the jump for the Runner Up and the Judge’s Choice. >>>

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