Join in on an actual photoshoot with a band and learn about things like throwing backgrounds out of focus, how to create fill light without a fill flash and more!

“MoTvation” (click image for more images from this shoot)
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Tips from the Top Floor, produced by photographer Chris Marquardt, is a free audio and video show about all things photography. Short and sweet with non-techy tips that you can put to use immediately. Covers everything from image composition to post processing. No matter if you use a digital point-and-shoot or an expensive digital SLR. Tips for the beginner as well as the professional photographer.



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geeeee - cool soundseeing again
WAAAAY cool piece of music!
Die Jungs haben das vertont, was ich alle Nase lang denk’ wenn ich Werbung sehe, den Müll am Straßenrand oder die Kids die stundenlang auf’s Handy starren und sich freuen, dass sie wieder für einen Sack voll Kohle einen neuen Klingelton haben….
Ich glaube ja, dass das eine lang angelegte Verschwörung ist. Man will die Welt verdummen und dann übernehmen… oder einfach ausrotten… Natur ist schlauer als wir glauben
Very cool soundseeing. Awesome pictures of the band.
and the sound of the "jungs" is the best piece of German I have honestly heard in a long f*$%§ing time. Mach weiter so, Jungs. Sehr geile Kacke! The beat is phat and the rhymes are killer!
Einer, der vor Sido und Bushido mal deutschen Rap geil fand, A to the J
Hey Chris Great set of pictures, i’ve got a question about the exposure though it says on all of your pictures the shutter speed is kept at 1.0 seconds how did you keep the jumping picture so sharp at that setting? I lvoe the show by the way my photography has improved significantly since i started listening to your show! keep up the good work!
Charles, I don’t know what happened there, but the shutter speed is definitely not 1 second - it seems Photoshop must have messed up something when saving the pictures. Especially the jump pictures were more in the 1/1000s area.
Chris,
I may be wrong, but I found that my film cam lenses that were non Canon were not compatible with my XT (i.e. a 90mm Tamron macro lens). You might want to mention that…