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2007 Podcastawards - get ready for nominations!

Friday, June 29th, 2007

It’s time again to nominate your favourite podcasts for this year’s PodcastAwards! The nominations open July 1st. Please make sure to play by the rules or your nomination won’t count. As opposed to last year, some of the rules have changed, so please read carefully to not submit an invalid nomination.
Rules:
  1. No repeat nominations. You can nominate your cast of favourite podcasts one time only.
  2. You can nominate a show for Podcast of the Year or Best Produced, and also submit it to an individual category (such as Education).
  3. A podcast can only be submitted in one individual category. If you submit a podcast to two individual categories, your nomination will not be counted.
An entirely and totally hypothetical example (*cough*):
Let’s assume you want to nominate TFTTF for the Education category and for Podcast of the Year. You go to the PodcastAwards web site and provide the information like this:
  • Category: Peoples Choice
  • Category: Education (nominate for one individual category only!)
  • Podcast name: Digital Photography Tips from the Top Floor
  • Podcast URL: http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/

Ready to nominate? Is it July 1st yet? If yes - go to the PodcastAwards web site. And don’t forget: vote for all your favourite shows, they put a lot of hard work into the content they provide to you!

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tfttf208 - San Diego - Fall 2007 Workshops are open for booking now! www.topfloorproductions.de

Friday, June 29th, 2007
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Let’s have a closer look at the San Diego workshop location - an interview with Jeff Dickerson.

The Logo Masta goes public: If you speak Spanish, check out Andres’ new podcast: Etceterapodcast.

Tips from the Top Floor is on the cover CD of the current issue of the Digital Photographer magazine in the UK!

The famous Discofilm method and the substance itself has received some major improvements by none less than it’s original inventor, German scientist Rainer Höhnle. And it’s now called Sensor Film.

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tfttf207 video - Studio 3 - Booking for the 2007 US Workshops is now open at www.topfloorproductions.de

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

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button_tour2007.jpgChris demonstrates different types of light formers on part 3 of the studio photography series.

Also come along on a short excursion of the May/2007 “Learning to See” workshop in Tübingen.

Interested in participating in a TFTTF workshop yourself?

Sign up for one of the US workshops at www.topfloorproduction.de

- Ft. Collins, Colorado: Sep 22-25 2007
- San Diego, California: Oct 4-7 2007
- Minneapolis, Minnesota: Oct 11-14 2007
- Port St. Lucie, Florida: Oct 18-21 2007


Sign up now!

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TFTTF News Flash #1

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

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Chris asked me to come up with a quick little announcement show to fill you in on some important announcements. So here’s a TFTTF News Flash. Happy Birthday to the Logo Masta!

-Release Pixie

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Did Steve break my audio?

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

My apologies for a quick deviation from the photography theme, but here’s something I have to get off my chest.

Huh?! Wot??! Yesterday everything worked just fine, my trusty little Alesis iO|2 USB audio interface did a great job when recording Skype calls (something I do a lot as a podcaster) and today when I started to prep for another recording, it all of a sudden wouldn’t play back the other party’s sound to me. A quick look into the sound preferences showed me that the iO|2 was available as an output, but not as an input anymore. Reboot didn’t help either. Bummer.
Well, luckily I won’t let something like that stop me. Dug through my recording equipment for one of the Presonus Firepods, a Firewire interface that I normally use for mobile multi-track recording of live bands, and hooked that one up instead. Now the Firepod will record my voice, but it won’t play back the other side. Bummer 2.0.

While thinking about what on earth I changed in my setup to break things that bad, it dawned on me.. just a few hours ago, I had done the Mac OS X 10.4.10 update. Oh well.. I should probably have listened to the guys on Macbreak when they said one should wait for a week or two before jumping on an OSX update.
In the meanwhile, I’ll use two audio interfaces, one on Firewire for recording and one on USB for playback… and if things get too weird, I’ll revert to my (not yet updated) iMac for recording.

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