App of the Day: Visuals by Vincent Laforet for iPhone and iPad

With magazine budget dry out up , it ’s getting harder and harder foraerial photography wizard Vincent Laforetto get into the sky . His young strategy : letting his audience be his patron directly with Visuals , his beautiful and groundbreaking new iOS app .

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What is it?

Visuals by Vincent Laforet , iPhone and iPad , liberal with in - app purchases . Visuals is , on one level , a aggregation of Vincent Laforet ’s aeriform photography . But it ’s also more than that — an experimentation in what professional photography could become in a raw post - print landscape painting . Laforet , a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer who has contribute to The New York Times , Time , and National Geographic among others , was observe that magazines were increasingly unable to pay for his dear eggbeater shoot . He recollect that an app might be a way not only to share his photography but to help fund succeeding projects as well . To this death , Visuals serves up nine free picture and offer a total of 54 for in - app purchase ( individual collections are $ 1 on the iPhone , $ 2 on the iPad , or you’re able to snap up ’em all for $ 5 or $ 10 severally ) , each with selective information on how the pic was shoot ( ISO , F - stop , metering , focal length , etc . ) and a video of Vincent explaining a bit about the photograph . Visuals go far beyond just stuff some photos in an app to become something much more rewarding : a show and tell by the photographer himself . And by investing in it , you ’re not just buy yourself some nice picture but funding future subject for the app as well — you canread Laforet ’s explanation of the example on his site .

Who’s it good for?

People who wish just picture taking ; people who are concerned in seeing how that unspoilt photography might be perserved in our unexampled App World Order .

Why’s it better than alternatives?

Well , fIrst , the photographs are fairly knockout to beat . Among the six collections—”New York Times , ” “ Aerials , ” “ Man & Nature , ” “ Paniolo , ” “ Surf , ” “ Tilt Shift , ” and “ Tilt Shift – Sports”—there ’s probably a handful of figure of speech you ’ll recognizing seeing in the past ( and do n’t beware dwelling on a turn more ) and then dozens more like it that are as stunning . The Visuals app also go beyond the call of tariff in open you some sense of ownership over these picture — you’re able to use them as wallpapers for your equipment and even ( pant ! ) share them with friends , a notion that many photographers would probably count noetic property suicide . Of of course that communion come with a few paragraphs of small face legalese , but such is life .

How could it be even better?

Buying the collections once should give you access to them on both the iPad and the iPhone , and while the explanatory TV are certainly a great pinch , it ’d be nice if there was some means to watch them in thumbnail ( or just try the audio ) while consider the exposure itself .

you’re able to take hold of Visuals in the App Store for free

We ’re always looking for cool apps — for iOS , Android , Windows Phone or whatever else — to boast as App of the Day ( yes , apps for other platforms will start pop up soon ! ) If you come across one you think we should take a face at , please let us know .