Today we're going to take a look at the five winning images from the October assignment on the theme of "Hands". It was great to see a better turn out for our assignment this month! Let's continue to try and get involved if you don't already. The more people actually...
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Podcast 310 : Location Portrait Shoot – Behind the Scenes
After a bit of a roller-coaster summer where I found that I had a brain tumor, had some pretty scary surgery and then spent the last four months or so getting my strength back, last Sunday marked my full return to being a working photographer with a location portrait...
Podcast 309 : What’s in the (ThinkTank Airport Security V2 Rolling Camera) Bag?
I've just started to use an Airport Security™ V 2.0 Rolling Camera Bag from ThinkTank Photo, and decided to do a "What's in my Camera Bag?" style review, at the same time as talking about the bag itself. This will be a "What's in the Bag?" for Martin Bailey the...
Podcast 308 : Nik Software’s Color Efex Pro 4 Walkthrough
Today I walk you through the updated Color Efex Pro 4 from Nik Software. As you'll see, this gives you amazing control over the look of your images, and I only touch the surface with regards to the available filters. I owned Color Efex Pro 3, as part of the Complete...
Podcast 307 : New 2012 Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Winter Wildlife Wonderland Tours
This is actually Chris Marquardt's Tips from the Top Floor, episode 524. Today basically I inserted a thirty minute chat between Chris and I as we've teamed up to bring you two new Snow Monkey and Hokkaido Winter Wildlife Wonderland Tours. I've recently asked Chris to...
Podcast 306 : Sept 2011 “Before/After” MBP Assignment Winners
Today we're going to take a look at the September 2011 MBP Assignment Winners, on the theme of Before/After. There were very few entrants for this assignment, hopefully because it was so hard, but I do want to urge any of you that sit on the fence as to whether or not...
Podcast 305 : Interview with Graham Morgan
Today I had the pleasure of chatting to a good friend of mine, Graham Morgan, an amazing photographer from Sussex Inlet, Australia, and we recorded the chat to share with you. I kind of take being able to communicate with Graham for granted, because we've been friends...
Podcast 304 : Seven Must Have Photography Related iPad Apps
At the start of June 2010, about 10 days after I got my iPad, I released Episode 246 about the iPad for the Photographer. At the time, I spoke about a bunch of apps that I had sought out and started to use, from a photographer's perspective. Last week I got an email...
Podcast 303 : Making a Gallery Wrap (Time Lapse Video)
Here's a time lapse video made with frames shot every three seconds, as I put together a 13x26" Gallery Wrap using Breathing Color's Easy Wrappe Pro 1.75 system. I also spent the time this week to learn how to make a Motion Graphics intro with Adobe After Effects....
Podcast 302 : Drobo Review, and Giveaway!
This week I've had the absolute pleasure of being able to test and review a Drobo, which as most of you already know is an external storage device that takes multiple hard drives, even of different size and creates one or more large volumes or drives with redundancy...
Podcast 301 : How to Create Really Punchy Images!
In September, I had a conversation by mail with a friend that some of you may know from the MBP Community, Jared Fein. Jared had taken a look at the images on 500px following Episode 295 : An Introduction to 500px, and asked how people achieve the punchy look that you...
Podcast 300 : Aug 2011 MBP Assignment Winners
It's kind of hard to believe that this is our 300th episode! It's been one hell of a journey this last six years though, and I wanted to thank each and every one of you for listening, and continuing to stay engaged with the community. You all help to make this what it...












