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Photo Day Panorama

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Remember the Photo Day with all the photographer interviews last summer? I’m still releasing the Photo Day videos every other week on Fridays (taking turns with the Everest Trek videos). The latest videos were the interview I shot with Ron Pepper on panorama photography.

During that interview Ron shot a panorama of the inside of the TWiT Cottage which is now online.

If you want to come along and have a look inside the TWiT Cottage, you can check it out here!

New Focus Ring Podcast Episode

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

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It was about time! There’s a new Focus Ring episode #18 out over at the Photocast Network. This episode features Jeff Curto, Martin Bailey, Ibarionex Perello and yours truly, discussing one common topic: light and shadow. To do that each of us has brought two pictures that we review together.

» Check out Focus Ring episode #18 here

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Friday, November 27th, 2009

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Four hundred episodes of Tips from the Top Floor. That’s over four years, and you ain’t seen nothing yet. Tips from the Top Floor has evolved and changed and morphed over that time and has become what it is today. I thank each and everyone of you for listening to the show and for making it into what it is with your questions, your inputs, your support both with the donations and through your moral support. I couldn’t wish for a better audience!

Questions (and answers) on this episode about filters (square or round?), cigarette roll paper (to clean lenses), manual focus (and how to make the most out of it), the truth about where Chris comes from (is he really Indian or Pakistani?), some thoughts about model releases (see the links below), breaking beer bottles in Utah (thanks Trucker Tom) and ways to earn money with your photography.

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The secret behind tilt/shift and why pseudo miniatures are boring

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Ever seen a visual effect that you got so over-saturated with that you just couldn’t take it anymore after a while? Is the tilt/shift pseudo miniature stuff on that scale for you? (pun intended)

Maybe someone needs to get on his soapbox about this…

» read what Chris has to say about it on his blog

Is post processing evil?

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Chris got on his soapbox again, this time about post processing and how evil it really is. Follow along on his personal blog as he talks about silk purses, sow’s ears and how analog photographers used to go about post processing their images in the darkroom.

» Read the article on Chris’ blog