Category Archives: Tips from the Top Floor

tfttf596 – Ultrawide Creative Juices

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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’ll look at an important way to keep your creative juices flowing: mix it up!

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Coming up: workshops with Chris Marquardt
Jan 2013: Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido, Japan (completed)
Aug 2013: Liverpool, UK
Aug 2013: Farnborough, UK (outside London)
Mar 2014: Iceland
May 2014: Mt. Everest
» all workshops

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tfttf595 – Cultural Kitchen Towel

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Chris looks at a few tricks to combine different white balances in one picture, let’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 your cultural background. As an example he uses a kitchen towel.

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Coming up: workshops with Chris Marquardt
Jan 2013: Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido, Japan (completed)
Aug 2013: Liverpool, UK
Aug 2013: Farnborough, UK (outside London)
Mar 2014: Iceland
May 2014: Mt. Everest
» all workshops

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tfttf594 – It’s T-Time on the Top Floor

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Mike gives the poor man’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 NPR’s Radiolab – and a question from Alex in Toronto takes us down the path to flash enlightenment and T-Times.

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Coming up: workshops with Chris Marquardt
Jan 2013: Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido, Japan (completed)
Aug 2013: Liverpool, UK
Aug 2013: Farnborough, UK (outside London)
Mar 2014: Iceland
May 2014: Mt. Everest
» all workshops

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tfttf593 – Saving eFKe

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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, Frank is interested in what’s happening with the levels in a image if you shoot super low-contrast scenes and there’s a treat for the analog photographers out there, Chris talks with Sanja Harris of the Fotokemika project that is set out to save the heritage of the maker of one of the last traditional silver rich films: EFKE

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Coming up: workshops with Chris Marquardt
Jan 2013: Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido, Japan (completed)
Aug 2013: Liverpool, UK
Aug 2013: Farnborough, UK (outside London)
Mar 2014: Iceland
May 2014: Mt. Everest
» all workshops

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tfttf591 – Where Are All The Women

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Barry wants to lead a photowalk and Chris offers TFTTF as a platform to advertise listener meet-ups, we’ll look at a super-low-contrast picture, Mitch has a question about photography in the south of Germany and let’s try to find an answer to the question why photography is such a male-dominated field these days.

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Coming up: workshops with Chris Marquardt
Jan 2013: Snow Monkeys & Hokkaido, Japan (completed)
Aug 2013: Liverpool, UK
Aug 2013: Farnborough, UK (outside London)
Mar 2014: Iceland
May 2014: Mt. Everest
» all workshops

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Go to squarespace.com to start a free trial, no credit card required. When you’re ready to purchase, click “enter an offer code” below the pricing at checkout and enter the offer code tfttf6 to get a 10% discount.