tips from the top floor

Today features the first part of the interview with illustrator and photographer Robin Preston. We talk about the beginnings of digital image editing and we look at the difference between commercial and professional photographers. » Download the MP3 for this episode Show Links: Robin Preston Ravsitar’s Photo Contest » Get the show for free in iTunes » Get the show for [...]

It’s industrial photography time! Chris and Monika spent time to shoot at the former Continental factory in Hannover, which has been shut down for many years. Let’s re-visit the burst trick and find out how you can take hand-held long exposures without a tripod and still avoid camera shake. » Download the MP3 for this episode Show [...]

Here is your chance to give something back to all your favorite free podcasts! Voting for this year’s Podcastawards is open NOW! Voting ends on Nov/6, so please vote DAILY for your favorite shows! Chris will vote daily for: The Rest of Everest (Best Video Podcast) You look nice today (Comedy) This American Life (Cultural/Arts) ReMARKable Palate (Food & [...]

[See post to watch Flash video] Watch in high quality (right click to save) Chris Marquardt and Boris Nienke spent a week in Cologne to cover Photokina 2008, the world’s biggest photography trade show for their German photography podcast Happy Shooting. Here are a few impressions for you. » Get the show for free in iTunes » Get the [...]

Last workshop of the year and first audio show in quite a while! Let’s talk about Photokina, workshops, theater light design, performance photography and more with our international group of workshop participants. » Download the MP3 for this episode Show Links: Chris’s Photokina coverage John Miller’s The Rest of Everest Want to know what Chris is planning for workshops in [...]

[See post to watch Flash video] Watch in high quality (right click to save) Photokina 2008 is over and Chris sums up the show for us. Show Links: Chris’s interview Steven Sasson inventor of the digital camera Check out Chris & Borris on the Happy Shooting Podcast (German) Drobo backup drives The Monochrom Subjektiv lens Kodak Image Sensors Lasolite lighting equipment Canon 5D Mark II Nikon [...]

[See post to watch Flash video] Watch in high quality (right click to save) With 160,000 visitors and almost 1600 exhibitors back in 2006, Photokina is the world’s largest photo trade show. A first look at the new Leica S2, Hasselblad drops its prices by 40%, Wacom Cintiq 12, HP Z3200 and more. » Get the show for free [...]

[See post to watch Flash video] Watch in high quality (right click to save) A day in Rocky Mountain National Park (near Estes Park) together with a crazy bunch of workshoppers. Obviously getting answers to questions also tends to raise new ones though. So what about those Alluvial Fans?! PS: and please give a big hand to Kingsley [...]

Release Pixie here with a quick little announcement show. Chris is still out with a case of laryngitis and wont be doing an audio show this week. Look for some video shows (one from the Ft. Collins workshop and a couple with Leo Laport from the PME) later this week or early next week.Chris and [...]

[See post to watch Flash video] Watch in high quality (right click to save) Let’s have some studio fun in this video of the Portland, ME workshop in August 2008. Everyone’s having a great time and it’s a blast to have access to such a great arsenal of studio equipment (thanks Mark Astmann and Bogen Imaging) Show Links: Bogen [...]

Coming from Portland, Maine! Chris’ last workshop on the US tour in 2008, here is another exciting Q&A show (but don’t worry, there is one workshop left for October in Germany and it has open seats!) A big thank you goes out to Mark Astmann and Bogen Imaging who were a tremendous help to the workshop [...]

Podcaster Trucker Tom is not only a friend of mine, he also participated in the landscape photography workshop in Ft. Collins, CO. And what do you think a podcaster like Tom would do when he has a camera in his hands? Right… Tom has released two video episodes showing scenes from the Ft. Collins workshop. He [...]

We are having a blast at the landscape photography workshop in Ft. Collins. This show has been recorded the night before our excursion up to Rocky Mountain National Park and we (of course) talk about landscape photography, nature photography, Arches National Park, eating 76 pieces of Sushi, and radio code names. Crunchy pretzel signing off. [...]

[See post to watch Flash video] Watch in high quality (right click to save) It’s excursion day in San Francisco and workshop helper and participant Gary Orenstein has put together this great video of the day!Show Links: Interested in an workshop? Click here! Ft. Colins Meet & Greet: August 20th at Rio Grande Portland Meet & Greet: August 27th at [...]

This video was shot during the 2008 Nashville Learning to See Event Photography workshop at the Big Bang Bar. As this isn’t directly photography related, but as I’m on Leo Laporte’s Tech Guy radio show, I’m putting it up here on the blog, but not on the Tips from the Top Floor podcast feed. [...]