Rick Sammon’s 24/7 Photo Buffet application, co-developed with Dr. Dave Wilson, offers photographic advice, tips and techniques collected during his 30+ years of professional experience. The app is packed with how-to information (text, stills, movies and screen grabs) and is super easy-to-navigate.
This content-heavy app can be used as a reference to learn basic and advanced techniques, or as a searchable guide to find (how cool is that?) to find a quick fix for a tricky photographic situation. In essence, the app is like having Rick – one of today’s top professional photographers and authors – in your hip pocket to help you become a better photographer – 24/7.
Unlike many photo apps available today, Rick’s 24/7 Photo Buffet offers a comprehensive guide, and is not limited to any one effect, style or technique.
PHOTOGRAPHIC CONTENT
Just like any good buffet, Rick’s 24/7 Photo Buffet offers variety and choice … and you can go back again and again for additional helpings. This comprehensive app guides users with a combination of text, about 250 example photos, and video tutorials. Content is divided into four major sections, each with a scrollable collection of topics, including:
Seeing – Learn how to see a picture in your mind’s eye, before you snap the shot. Subjects covered include composition, framing, and lighting.
Making – Discover how to make a great picture rather than simply take a picture, applying your knowledge of exposure, flash, filters, and taking pictures with the iPhone itself.
Editing – Find out how to enhance your pictures in the digital darkroom by tweaking the white balance, levels, saturation and contrast, and selectively controlling sharpening.
Tips – Search Rick’s A-Z photo tips for advice on everything from aerial shooting and underwater photography to sunsets and panoramas.
In addition to the large helping of content, there is also a Help button that allows you to make comments and post suggestions for future apps.
Sprinkled throughout the app is a smorgasbord of photography topics.
Use this app to take better pictures of kids, nighttime subjects, sunrises and sunsets, fireworks, animals, people, scenery, waterfalls, rainy day subjects and wildlife.
Use this app to increase your knowledge of panoramas, lenses, aperture, shutter speed,
white balance, exposure, fill flash, filters, lighting, ISO, photo editing software.
HDR INFO, Too!
HDR (High Dynamic Range) must-know info, Notes Feature and Expanded content.
Read all about this app – released on May 5th, 2010 – on my blog. Click here!
The app is a recording of Rick’s Keynote presentation on social media marketing. It's like taking a private 1.5-hour lesson on this all-important subject.
Keep in mind that this app is not a college-level course on Social Media Marketing. It’s an app in which I share what I have learned about Social Media over the years – info that can help you successfully market your work and grow your business.
Good luck with growing your business.
Enjoy!
P.S. Just a quick tip for now: You really need to embrace social media. The more your tweet, facebook, etc., the more hits you’ll get on your site and blog.
Do it daily.
Today, Social Media Marketing is marketing. Now, more than ever, photographers, as well as all those involved in creative endeavors, need to market their work, locally, nationally and internationally. That’s the focus of this comprehensive app.
This app is a set of five movies, narrated and illustrated with original pictures by award-winning photographer Rick Sammon, author of 36 books, much sought-after popular public speaker and on-line training expert.
This is my second app. His first, co-developed with Dr. Dave Wilson, is Rick Sammon’s 24/7 Photo Buffet.
Movie times:
Part 1 – 24 minutes
Part 2 – 26 minutes
Part 3 – 17 minutes
Part 4 – 12 minutes
Part 5 – 11 minutes
Total: 90 minutes.
Rick Sammon’s
Life Lessons We Can Learn From Mother Nature
An iPad App with inspirational quotes and photographs.
Bonus:
Includes a mini-course on nature photography!
Click here to order
This e-book has been a work-in-progress for about three years. It’s been a fun, rewarding and inspiring project.
My original idea was to produce a coffee-table/gift book that motivated and inspired photographers – and all those involved in creative endeavors. After all, many of us need some motivation and inspiration from time to time. Right?
The concept was to put together meaningful quotes carefully matched with my favorite wildlife and nature pictures.
Even with more than 35 books to my name, I could not find a book publisher to take a chance on this idea. But I never gave up.
I did, however, put together the images and quotes into a slide show that I showed before my digital photography presentations. The attendees always commented that they enjoyed the pre-show show – even though no photography information was included.
Then along came the iPhone and the world of apps on iTunes. Everything changed. Now, photographers, and traditional book authors like myself, could self-publish their work.
But then a more important change came along: the iPad. Now, apps and e-books – and photographs – could look bigger and better than ever. Here, too, worldwide distribution was possible from a home computer.
Enter Juan Pons, my partner in the Digital Photography Experience web site and podcast. Juan is talented wildlife photographer as well as an app developer – and a good friend.
In talking with Juan, we decided to add a photography tip for each picture in this e-book, as well as the camera I used and the exposure information.
Then we decided to add some Photoshop tips, which also can be applied to Lightroom, Aperture and Elements. So, the book is part inspirational/motivational and part photo how-to.
I hope you enjoy this e-book. If you have an inspirational quote you’d like to share, I’d love to hear it.
Please send it to me in an email: ricksammon@mac.com. Who knows? I may use it in a future e-book.
