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  • 788 Tricks of the Press Photographers

    Let’s look at how a spaghetti strainer can help you learn about photography. There are three new and probably a bit exotic lenses on the horizon and Chris explains what they are good for. He also looks at the tricks of the press photographers to help you take better hand-held low light shots.

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    • Photo tours with Chris Marquardt:
      » May 2017: Svalbard — Arctic (sold out)
      » Oct 2017: Bhutan — The Happiness Kingdom (only 1 spot open)
      » May 2018: New York Tilt-Shift
      » Aug 2018: Ireland — Giant's Causeway
      » Sep 2018: Norway — Lofoten Fantastic Fjords
      » Oct 2018: Morocco
      » all photo tours

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      26 min
    • 787 The True Foundation of All Photography

      Chris spills the beans on the big secret of how to make you a better photographer, Derrin asks about Depth of Field and Limon64 wonders why some cameras are easier to focus than others.

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      • Photo tours with Chris Marquardt:
        » May 2017: Svalbard — Arctic (sold out)
        » Oct 2017: Bhutan — The Happiness Kingdom (only 1 spot open)
        » May 2018: New York Tilt-Shift
        » Aug 2018: Ireland — Giant's Causeway
        » Sep 2018: Norway — Lofoten Fantastic Fjords
        » Oct 2018: Morocco
        » all photo tours

        Episode photo by John Hult

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        23 min
      • 786 Rich and Famous

        Danny wonders how to make money with his travel photography and Chris explains his personal story around that topic. Chris has been interviewed by Photo Live Magazine and takes a closer look at the great photos that the listeners submitted to this round of the Slack Photo Challenge.

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        Links:

        • Slack Challenge Review: Angad Photos
        • Slack Challenge Review: Nikolaus Hueck
        • Slack Challenge Review: Brendan Burkett
        • Curiously Polar 011: Blue Ice
        • Curiously Polar 012: Tourism in the Arctic and the Antarctic
        • Absolut Analog 020: Monobath (in German)
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            » May 2017: Svalbard — Arctic (sold out)
            » Oct 2017: Bhutan — The Happiness Kingdom (only 1 spot open)
            » May 2018: New York Tilt-Shift
            » Aug 2018: Ireland — Giant's Causeway
            » Sep 2018: Norway — Lofoten Fantastic Fjords
            » Oct 2018: Morocco
            » all photo tours

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            30 min
          • 785 Canon, Nikon, I’m Looking at You

            Let’s look at how a DSLR shutter works, with its spring-loaded bladed shutters and its electro magnets and how it’s possible to program and run a shutter using an Arduino. We’ll also dive into keywording strategies and have a look at where photography might go from here with the new developments in image recognition and 3D sensing.

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            Links:

            • DSLR Shutter In Detail – YouTube
            • DSLR Shutter on 100 Year Old Lens – YouTube
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              • Photo tours with Chris Marquardt:
                » May 2017: Svalbard — Arctic (sold out)
                » Oct 2017: Bhutan — The Happiness Kingdom (only 1 spot open)
                » May 2018: New York Tilt-Shift
                » Aug 2018: Ireland — Giant's Causeway
                » Sep 2018: Norway — Lofoten Fantastic Fjords
                » Oct 2018: Morocco
                » all photo tours

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                28 min
              • 784 Homemade Lenses

                On this quick-fire Q&A episode Terry wonders about print sizes & aspect ratios, Michael has questions about prisms and mirrors in cameras and Oliver is looking into experimenting with home-made lenses.

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                  Build your own lens
                  More about building your own lens
                  Homemade lens
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                  • Photo tours with Chris Marquardt:
                    » May 2017: Svalbard — Arctic (sold out)
                    » Oct 2017: Bhutan — The Happiness Kingdom (only 1 spot open)
                    » May 2018: New York Tilt-Shift
                    » Aug 2018: Ireland — Giant's Causeway
                    » Sep 2018: Norway — Lofoten Fantastic Fjords
                    » Oct 2018: Morocco
                    » all photo tours

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                    21 min
                  • 783 Why are Lenses Round?

                    On this quick-fire question and answer episode, Andy wonders why lenses are round and Chris talks about how lenses are made and how the round shape makes most sense. John has a LR workflow question and Mark is curious about digital medium format. Chris goes into detail on why medium format isn’t clearly defined and on the differences between film medium format and digital medium format.

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                      SPONSOR: Shutterstock (get 20% off)
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                      • Photo tours with Chris Marquardt:
                        » May 2017: Svalbard — Arctic (sold out)
                        » Oct 2017: Bhutan — The Happiness Kingdom (only 1 spot open)
                        » May 2018: New York Tilt-Shift
                        » Aug 2018: Ireland — Giant's Causeway
                        » Sep 2018: Norway — Lofoten Fantastic Fjords
                        » Oct 2018: Morocco
                        » all photo tours

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                        15 min
                      • 782 – Recovering from the Cloud

                        Oliver has some follow-up regarding cloud backups, David wonders about air travel and the electronics ban and Joe wants to shoot infrared black and white film and digital.

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                        • Bumper Car Light Painting [Video] with Chris Marquardt
                        • Chris Marquardt on Patreon
                        • SPONSOR: Get 20% off at Shutterstock.com
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                          • Photo tours with Chris Marquardt:
                            » May 2017: Svalbard — Arctic (sold out)
                            » Oct 2017: Bhutan — The Happiness Kingdom (only 1 spot open)
                            » May 2018: New York Tilt-Shift
                            » Aug 2018: Ireland — Giant's Causeway
                            » Sep 2018: Norway — Lofoten Fantastic Fjords
                            » Oct 2018: Morocco
                            » all photo tours

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                            22 min
                          • 781 Physical Backups

                            This episode features questions on broken links, printing your photos as a physical backup, the whereabouts of the Marquardt International Pinhole project, lens elements and groups and an SD card tester for Windows.

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                            • Arq: cloud backup for Mac and Windows
                            • Marquardt International Pinhole – 4×5″ Large Format Pinhole Camera by Chris Marquardt
                            • F3 – flash memory card tester for Mac
                            • H2testw – flash memory card tester for Windows
                            • SPONSOR: 20% off Shutterstock for TFTTF listeners
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                              • Photo tours with Chris Marquardt:
                                » May 2017: Svalbard — Arctic (sold out)
                                » Oct 2017: Bhutan — The Happiness Kingdom (only 1 spot open)
                                » May 2018: New York Tilt-Shift
                                » Aug 2018: Ireland — Giant's Causeway
                                » Sep 2018: Norway — Lofoten Fantastic Fjords
                                » Oct 2018: Morocco
                                » all photo tours

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                                23 min
                              • 780 Tarantino’s Lens Artefacts

                                On this rapid-fire Q&A episode: Adam is interested in avoiding losing his photos in times of ransomware and Chris lays out his strategy from shooting through editing to archiving, to make sure he never loses a single photo. Hampus goes whale watching to Iceland and wonders what focal length makes the most sense and Heramb from India noticed a strange focus artefact in a Quentin Tarantino movie and Chris digs out one of Hollywood film-makers’ secrets: the split diopter.

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                                Links:

                                • Kodachrome Magazine, 2017 Issue 1 | Kodak Store
                                • How to use a Split Focus Diopter | Shanks FX | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube
                                • Split Focus Shots A Supercut – YouTube
                                • Flash card tester: F3 by Digirati (for Mac)
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                                  • Photo tours with Chris Marquardt:
                                    » May 2017: Svalbard — Arctic (sold out)
                                    » Oct 2017: Bhutan — The Happiness Kingdom (only 1 spot open)
                                    » May 2018: New York Tilt-Shift
                                    » Aug 2018: Ireland — Giant's Causeway
                                    » Sep 2018: Norway — Lofoten Fantastic Fjords
                                    » Oct 2018: Morocco
                                    » all photo tours

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                                    33 min
                                  • 779 David DuChemin: The Soul of the Camera
                                    On today’s episode Chris reveals the winners of the last TFTTF Slack Challenge (join the Slack here)- and Release Pixie Ravsitar reveals the new one.
                                    Chris and David DuChemin discuss what’s more important, the tech, or The Soul of the Camera (which happens to be the title of David’s new book too).
                                    David duChemin is a world & humanitarian assignment photographer, best-selling author, and international workshop leader whose adventurous life fuels his fire to create and share. Based in Victoria, Canada, when he’s home, David leads a semi-nomadic life chasing compelling images on all 7 continents. His work can be found at DavidduChemin.com
                                    Socorro, Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico. Silky sharks playing behind our dive boat gave us a great excuse to make some photographs. Photo: David DuChemin
                                    Gabra women dancing, North Horr, Kenya. Photo: David DuChemin
                                    Singing Well. Nachoto Galmagaleh. Photo: David DuChemin
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                                    Links:
                                    The Soul of the Camera
                                    David DuChemin
                                    Craft & Vision
                                    SPONSOR: get 25% OFF your first order at artbeat Studios
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                                    Photo tours with Chris Marquardt:
                                    » May 2017: Svalbard — Arctic (sold out)
                                    » Oct 2017: Bhutan — The Happiness Kingdom (only 1 spot open)
                                    » May 2018: New York Tilt-Shift
                                    » Aug 2018: Ireland — Giant's Causeway
                                    » Sep 2018: Norway — Lofoten Fantastic Fjords
                                    » Oct 2018: Morocco
                                    » all photo tours
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                                    59 min

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