Digital Photography Tips From the Top Floor Podcast
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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. With a good sense of humour, Chris Marquardt manages to convey tips for the beginner as well as the professional photographer.
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J.E., February 17, 2006
Reviewer: J.E.
from Chicago, Illinois
If you own a digital camera, then you could really benefit from listening to the Digital Photography Podcast. The show is usually less than 10 minutes long (sometimes it's a bit longer), but the host packs a lot of very useful information into those minutes. I have listened to several of these podcasts, and each time I have come away with practical photography tips that I can use in my very next outing with the camera.
The host is obviously very knowledgeable, and is able to convey his knowledge in a way that even amateurs can understand. A fun aspect of the show is the Assignment segment. Sometimes the host will give listeners certain photo subjects to go out and look for. New shows generally are available every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, so you don't have to wait very long for your next fix.
I really have nothing bad to say about this podcast. It's definitely worth a listen.
personalmedia, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: personalmedia
from Indiana
The Digital Photography Show offers insights and tips on the topic the show is named for – digital photography. The podcast I reviewed was an interview with a professional photographer. This show was longer than many of the previous podcasts. It was close to thirty minutes. Tips for getting started as a professional photographer and ideas for finding inspiration were covered in this show.
Anyone interested in digital photography will find this podcast a useful resource for getting involved in digital photography as a hobby or on a professional level. I liked the fact that the content of the podcast is very focused and free from promotional references to other podcasts. Marquardt delivers useful information in an organized format.
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tfttf325 - Shoot Through Something - Tech Guy
Author: Chris Marquardt
Fri, Jan 09, 2009
There’s more to pictures than subjects. Leo and Chris discuss negative space, the space around the subject.
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tfttf324 - Image Review “Call” - Tech Guy
Author: Chris Marquardt
Fri, Jan 02, 2009
Chris and Leo review the pictures for the “call” assignment. This show is a repeat of a radio segment, so the assignment is not current.
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tfttf323 - Poor Man’s Tripod - Tech Guy
Author: Chris Marquardt
Wed, Dec 24, 2008
Today Leo finds out how to build a simple tripod with a piece of string and a screw.
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Ravsitar’s Cookie Contest Winner
Author: Chris Marquardt
Tue, Dec 23, 2008
Winning photo by Heinrock
As Chris can’t seem to remember to announce the winner, here’s a quick little show to tell you who won. Maybe Chris can take a few minutes on the next show to tell you why he liked this image.
Thanks to all the listeners, pixies, and helpers for a great year!
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tfttf322 - Gray Card - Tech Guy
Author: Chris Marquardt
Fri, Dec 19, 2008
Today Chris tells Leo what a gray card is good for and how it relates to the light metering of our camera.
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tfttf321 - No Background Choice On Flickr
Author: Chris Marquardt
Thu, Dec 18, 2008
News about Chris’ voice: he’ll have to take it a bit easy over the next weeks. But rest assured, there will be a little something for you every week. Tips from the Top Floor is independent again - and open for new sponsorships! Inquire at info@tipsfromthetopfloor.com - We are getting ready to kick off the [...]
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tfttf320 video - New Media Expo 2008 - pt 2 of 2
Author: Chris Marquardt
Sat, Dec 13, 2008
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See part two of the talk and find out how to balance different light sources to get a more even white balance. Chris talks with Leo Laporte and Amber McArthur at the New Media Expo in Las Vegas.
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tfttf319 video - New Media Expo 2008 - pt 1 of 2
Author: Chris Marquardt
Fri, Dec 05, 2008
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Earlier this year Chris was invited to talk tech and photography with Leo Laporte and Amber McArthur at the New Media Expo in Las Vegas.Watch the first of two parts and find out if Chris manages to crash Leo’s Tricaster again.
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tfttf318 - Interview: Robin Preston - pt 2 of 2
Author: Chris Marquardt
Fri, Nov 21, 2008
This is part 2 of the interview with illustrator and photographer Robin Preston. Listen to part 1. Today we talk about Robin’s experience around his first car photography shoot. We’ll also spend some time discussing Robin’s current project Laboratorium (link below) and how he wants to use this to give something back.
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tfttf317 - Interview: Robin Preston - pt 1 of 2
Author: Chris Marquardt
Fri, Nov 14, 2008
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.
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tfttf316 - Burst Burst Burst
Author: Chris Marquardt
Tue, Nov 04, 2008
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.
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tfttf315 - Group Shots - Vote at www.podcastawards.com!
Author: Chris Marquardt
Sun, Oct 26, 2008
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 & [...]
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tfttf314 Video - Photokina 2008 - Impressions
Author: Chris Marquardt
Sat, Oct 11, 2008
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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.
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tfttf313 - Light Light Light
Author: Chris Marquardt
Tue, Oct 07, 2008
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.
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Chris’s Photokina coverage
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tfttf312 Video - Photokina 2008 - Roundup
Author: Chris Marquardt
Wed, Oct 01, 2008
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Photokina 2008 is over and Chris sums up the show for us.
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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
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tfttf311 Video - Photokina 2008 - First Look
Author: Chris Marquardt
Fri, Sep 26, 2008
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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.
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tfttf310 Video - Ft. Collins Workshop 2008 (Alluvial Fans?)
Author: Chris Marquardt
Fri, Sep 19, 2008
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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?!
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Contest Announcement
Author: Chris Marquardt
Tue, Sep 16, 2008
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 [...]
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tfttf309 Video - Portland, Maine - Studio Photography
Author: Chris Marquardt
Fri, Sep 05, 2008
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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)
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tfttf308 - Portland Maine Workshop 2008
Author: Chris Marquardt
Sat, Aug 30, 2008
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!)
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Workshop videos by Trucker Tom
Author: Chris Marquardt
Tue, Aug 26, 2008
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…
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tfttf307 - Ft. Collins Workshop 2008 (Crunchy Pretzel)
Author: Chris Marquardt
Sat, Aug 23, 2008
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. [...]
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tfttf306 Video - San Francisco Excursion
Author: Chris Marquardt
Fri, Aug 15, 2008
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It’s excursion day in San Francisco and workshop helper and participant Gary Orenstein has put together this great video of the day!
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Ft. Colins Meet & Greet: August 20th at Rio Grande
Portland Meet & Greet: August 27th at [...]
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I’m a TWiT! - Geoff Smith live
Author: Chris Marquardt
Wed, Aug 13, 2008
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. [...]
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tfttf305 Video - Geoff and Chris live on stage!
Author: Chris Marquardt
Tue, Aug 12, 2008
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Chris and the Nashville workshop crew hang out at the Big Bang Bar with Geoff Smith. Watch Chris and Geoff rock out together on stage, and watch the workshop participants practice their low-light photography skills.
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tfttf304 - Nashville, Tennessee
Author: Chris Marquardt
Sat, Aug 09, 2008
Greetings from the workshop in Nashville,TN and a happy 8/8/08 to our Chinese listeners, oh happy day!
Today we’ll talk about photography pricing, digital asset management, super long exposures, lenses for stage photography, macro lenses and why the colors red, blue and white are attention magnets in pictures.
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Warnings from where????
Author: Chris Marquardt
Thu, Aug 07, 2008
Something a little unusual from a few attendees of the San Francisco workshop. You could have this kind of fun too. And there’s still space available in the Portland workshop.
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Nashville Meet & Greet: August 6th at Bosco’s
Las Vegas Meet & Greet: August 13th at Peppermill
Ft. Colins Meet & [...]
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Listener Meet & Greet Reminder #3
Author: Chris Marquardt
Mon, Aug 04, 2008
Release Pixie here with a quick little update/reminder for the TFTTF Listener Meet & Greets. They’re coming up fast, so stop into the forums and let us know if you’ll be there. We’d love to meet you!
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San Francisco Meet & Greet: July 30th at Americano Restaurant [...]
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tfttf303 - San Francisco Workshop 2008
Author: Chris Marquardt
Sat, Aug 02, 2008
Listen in as the TFTTF San Francisco Workshop group discusses the things they’ve learned from the first two days of the workshop. Learn about a really cool way to view the world, catch lights, swapping camera gear, and things to watch out for while traveling.
Photo by: Alan Morris
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Listener Meet & Greet Reminder #2
Author: Chris Marquardt
Mon, Jul 28, 2008
Release Pixie here with a quick little update/reminder for the TFTTF Listener Meet & Greets. They’re coming up fast, so stop into the forums and let us know if you’ll be there. We’d love to meet you!
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tfttf302 - The Tricaster Disaster
Author: Chris Marquardt
Sat, Jul 26, 2008
It was such a perfect plan: Drive up to Petaluma, enter the TWiT Dungeon Cottage, take over Leo’s TWiT Live TV and make him talk to me about photography for at least two hours while sending me tons of new followers to Twitter and new subscribers to Tips from the Top Floor. But as we [...]
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tfttf301 - Previsualization - The Tech Guy
Author: Chris Marquardt
Fri, Jul 25, 2008
Let us dig up this old technique devised by Ansel Adams. By pre-visualizing your shots, you can get more consistent and reliable results.
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Listener Meet & Greet Reminder #1
Author: Chris Marquardt
Thu, Jul 24, 2008
Release Pixie here with a quick little update/reminder for the TFTTF Listener Meet & Greets. They’re coming up fast, so stop into the forums and let us know if you’ll be there. We’d love to meet you!
PS: Sorry about the sound, I need a new mic stand
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tfttf300 - Ones and 0s
Author: Chris Marquardt
Mon, Jul 21, 2008
Yey! Here’s the 300th episode of Tips from the Top Floor, almost entirely made by YOU, the listeners!
Meet Chris and hang out for a drink at one of the Meet’n'Greets:
- Jul/30 San Francisco, CA
- Aug/6 Nashville, TN
- Aug/20 Ft. Collins, CO
- Aug/27 Portland, ME
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Tfttf299c - Improve your Photography - The Tech Guy
Author: Chris Marquardt
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
Leo and Chris talk about fun tips to help you improve your photography.
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Focus Ring 15 - All Access Le Mans
Author: Chris Marquardt
Thu, Jul 03, 2008
The Photocast Network just released another episode of Focus Ring!
On the Focus Ring Panel:
Benoit Marchal - Declencheur
Boris Nienke - nSonic
Chris Marquardt - Tips from the Top Floor
Topics: How to become a professional photographer in minutes, how to get an all-access pass to the 24 hours of Le Mans car race and how to learn about [...]
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