Photography Tips from the Top Floor

Tweet Today: an interview with Photographer Ben Shirk, we’ll meet the youngest fan of TFTTF, there’s a quick hello from the folks at Radiolab and Chris will talk about Macro Ratios on crop sensors. Show Links: Video: St. Louis City … Continue reading →

Tweet Today Chris shows you two ways to get your creative juices flowing: The St. Louis City Museum and After Dark, a unique photo event. Also listen in as Chris talks with After Dark mentor Mike Ridinger about how to … Continue reading →

Tweet Chris Marquardt takes a quick break from teaching at After Dark in St. Louis and gets a factory tour at Miller’s Professional Imaging, one of the world’s best professional print service providers. Video: Jon Miller (The Rest of Everest) … Continue reading →

Tweet The one and only Julien Smith, about 7 years ago. Steve dropped his camera and tries to find out what to do, we’ll look at a picture that’s mixing it up and Chris explains what Highlight Tone Priority (aka … Continue reading →

Tweet 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: … Continue reading →

Tweet 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 … Continue reading →

Tweet 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 … Continue reading →

Tweet 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, … Continue reading →

Tweet Chris and Monika spend a long weekend in St. Peter-Ording at the German North Sea, getting caught by a snow storm and having a blast working in windy conditions with digital and analog photo gear. Show Links: Chris’ pictures … Continue reading →

Tweet 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 … Continue reading →

Tweet Kirk wants to buy 35mm film and Chris takes him through several alternatives, where to buy and how to develop, Rob has a question about contrast and Chris explains some photographer’s lingo and what “one stop” exactly means. Show … Continue reading →

Tweet On this episode of TFTTF German wants to know how to deal with Lightroom and multiple catalogs, Simon has a question on the inverse square law (no math in this episode, promise!) and Happy 111th Birthday, Ansel Adams! “There … Continue reading →

Tweet Get a more in-depth view at shooting wildlife in Hokkaido, Japan and listen to Chris talk about equipment, culture, washlets, video, cranes, snow monkeys, white-tailed eagles, steller’s sea eagles, big lenses and of course how to deal with the … Continue reading →

Tweet Chris packs for shooting in minus 30 degree Celsius conditions, including down pants and a ton of batteries, Bruce wants to know about the advantages and disadvantages of variable ND filters and let’s find out if a modern lens … Continue reading →

Tweet Chris and Martin Bailey are calling in at 5am from a Japanese bus on their way to do a sunrise photo shoot with the workshop group over lake Kushiro. They also briefly touch on the 6.4 earthquake that happened … Continue reading →