4 posts tagged “tips from the top floor”
Just a quick post for all you photographers out there. Tips from the Top Floor and Borrowlenses.com are having a contest where you can win a week with your favorite lens! Sounds like fun, right? Go to: http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/ for details. Like now!
More exciting is that registrations for this year's Learning to See photography workshops have finally opened! There will be four of them like last year, in August, in San Francisco, Ft. Collins, CO, Nashville, TN, and Portland, ME, and based on response so far this year will be even better than last. They're taught by award-winning podcaster Chris Marquardt of Tips from the Top Floor (www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com) and are a great learning tool as well as a ton of fun.
Yesterday I heard what is very exciting news for a friend of mine. Chris Marquardt, who is a twice award-winning podcaster with his digital photography show Tips from the Top Floor (www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com) is being featured on Leo LaPorte's radio show, The Tech Guy, starting this weekend! I've loved Chris's really down-to-earth practical and fun photography tips and have learned tons from him for nearly two years, so this is a really cool thing for him to reach a different audience.
I've known of Leo for years from Tech TV, and listen to most of the TWiT shows, and often thought how cool it would be if he and Chris teamed up. Well, at last they have and I'm thrilled.
So if you're interested, go to: http://techguylabs.com/radio/
to see if there's a station in your area, or if you have XM radio, you're all set. Show airs Saturday and Sunday, though I don't know what time he'll be on.
Congratulations Chris!
I was reading a post from my friend John Arnold (whose podcast about post processing is a great learning tool - www.photowalkthrough.com) about how he was challenging himself to photograph some mundane object such as his refrigerator every day and try to make it interesting. So I thought I'd see what I could do with that. Photograph some everyday thing, a cup, plate, bottle, etc. and see if I could come up with some interesting images as well.
If you'd like to see John's original post on flickr, go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/floyduk/373295970/
I used to do this same exercise in drawing. Draw every day. Draw what you see around you. See the beauty in the ordinary!
