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Photography Tips from the Top Floor: Episodes

Tweet Today: an interview with Photographer Ben Shirk, we&#8217;ll meet the youngest fan of TFTTF, there&#8217;s a quick hello from the folks at Radiolab and Chris will talk about Macro Ratios on crop sensors. Show Links: Video: St. Louis City &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/05/16/tfttf599-the-shows-greatest-fan/">Continue ...
Tweet Today Chris shows you two ways to get your creative juices flowing: The St. Louis City Museum and After Dark, a unique photo event. Also listen in as Chris talks with After Dark mentor Mike Ridinger about how to &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/05/02/tfttf598-giggle-like-a-child/">Continue ...
Tweet Chris Marquardt takes a quick break from teaching at After Dark in St. Louis and gets a factory tour at Miller&#8217;s Professional Imaging, one of the world&#8217;s best professional print service providers. Video: Jon Miller (The Rest of Everest) &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/04/24/tfttf598-video-millers-professional-imaging/">Continue ...
Tweet The one and only Julien Smith, about 7 years ago. Steve dropped his camera and tries to find out what to do, we&#8217;ll look at a picture that&#8217;s mixing it up and Chris explains what Highlight Tone Priority (aka &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/04/18/tfttf597-dropping-cameras/">Continue ...
Tweet Chris takes a look at the lighting at the German parliament in Berlin, Steve has a question on ultra-wide lenses and how to compose with them, and we&#8217;ll look at an important way to keep your creative juices flowing: &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/04/12/tfttf596-ultrawide-creative-juices/">Continue ...
Tweet Chris looks at a few tricks to combine different white balances in one picture, let&#8217;s analyze a picture that makes use of mixed lighting and Chris has a look at how you can interpret pictures VERY differently based on &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/04/05/tfttf595-cultural-kitchen-towel/">Continue ...
Tweet Mike gives the poor man&#8217;s tripod a new twist, Tips from the Top Floor is New and Noteworty, Chris won a contest and will be in Los Angeles early May to meet with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich of &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/03/29/tfttf594-its-t-time-on-the-top-floor/">Continue ...
Tweet Gary has a note on backing up pictures during travel, Bear has thoughts on getting out of a rut by using other arts, and he needs a backup strategy for his pictures during a 70 day long motorcycle trip, &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/03/20/tfttf593-saving-efke/">Continue ...
Tweet Chris and Monika spend a long weekend in St. Peter-Ording at the German North Sea, getting caught by a snow storm and having a blast working in windy conditions with digital and analog photo gear. Show Links: Chris&#8217; pictures &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/03/13/tfttf592-from-the-snowy-sea/">Continue ...
Tweet Barry wants to lead a photowalk and Chris offers TFTTF as a platform to advertise listener meet-ups, we&#8217;ll look at a super-low-contrast picture, Mitch has a question about photography in the south of Germany and let&#8217;s try to find &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/03/07/tfttf591-where-are-all-the-women/">Continue ...
Tweet Kirk wants to buy 35mm film and Chris takes him through several alternatives, where to buy and how to develop, Rob has a question about contrast and Chris explains some photographer&#8217;s lingo and what &#8220;one stop&#8221; exactly means. Show &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/03/01/tfttf590-photographer-lingo-eplained/">Continue ...
Tweet On this episode of TFTTF German wants to know how to deal with Lightroom and multiple catalogs, Simon has a question on the inverse square law (no math in this episode, promise!) and Happy 111th Birthday, Ansel Adams! &#8220;There &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/02/22/tfttf589-more-light-makes-more-dark/">Continue ...
Tweet Get a more in-depth view at shooting wildlife in Hokkaido, Japan and listen to Chris talk about equipment, culture, washlets, video, cranes, snow monkeys, white-tailed eagles, steller&#8217;s sea eagles, big lenses and of course how to deal with the &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/02/14/tfttf588-a-japan-wildlife-adventure/">Continue ...
Tweet Chris packs for shooting in minus 30 degree Celsius conditions, including down pants and a ton of batteries, Bruce wants to know about the advantages and disadvantages of variable ND filters and let&#8217;s find out if a modern lens &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/02/06/tfttf587-shooting-at-minus-thirty-degrees/">Continue ...
Tweet Chris and Martin Bailey are calling in at 5am from a Japanese bus on their way to do a sunrise photo shoot with the workshop group over lake Kushiro. They also briefly touch on the 6.4 earthquake that happened &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/02/03/tfttf-special-update-after-the-hokkaido-earthquake/">Continue ...
Tweet Chris talks about a double exposure, Mark wants to scan 1000s of photos (not negatives) and we&#8217;ll learn a few surprises about how Lightroom handles JPG compression. Show Links: Voigtländer Bessa (video) Kodak Brownie Christmas Ornaments (blog post) JPG &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/01/24/tfttf586-surprises-in-compression/">Continue ...
Tweet Today Sean wants to know how to get out of his photographic funk, we&#8217;ll take another look at vignettes and find out what you can learn from over 40 years of active photography. Does equipment really matter more than &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/01/17/tfttf585-equipment-does-matter/">Continue ...
Tweet Today Chris talks about vignettes and how to do them right, the latest from the TFTTF Google+ community, a picture with extreme spectrum and how to travel with two big cameras. Show Links: The TFTTF Community The episode 583 &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/01/10/tfttf584-vignettes-of-doom/">Continue ...
Tweet Happy New Year! Today Chris looks at what leaving your comfort zones can do for your photography, he will review last episode&#8217;s you-had-to-be-there picture and take a look at sharpness. Also a quick review of 2012 and an outlook &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2013/01/02/tfttf583-comfort-zone/">Continue ...
Tweet Chris talks about Instagram and how he thinks the big fuss is a red herring to distract from a completely different issue: advertising to users without telling them about it. Also on the show: the spectrum of light and &#8230; <a href="http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/2012/12/27/tfttf582-you-had-to-be-there/">Continue ...
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