Adventures in Meyr Land

Finally another sound-seeing, taking you to various places in San Francisco on our San Francisco Street Safari workshop. Listen in to hear about street photography in an awesome city. » Download the MP3 for this episode Show Links: More workshops with Chris » Get the show for free in iTunes » Get the show for free using RSS

PhotoWalkthrough has joined forces with Welshot Academy to bring you a series of workshops covering Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements and creative composition. John will be teaching in a beautiful, inspiring location with plenty of opportunity for shooting and one on one advice. If you’ve never attended a photography workshop before these 1 or 2 day short courses are an ideal affordable, educational and fun introduction.

Visit our new Workshops page where you’ll find dates, locations and links to everything you need to pick a course and make a booking. See you there!

Aaaand another one in the tradition to do a pre-workshop meet-up that is open for everybody to join, to hang out, to grab a bite, to have a beer and to talk photography. Thursday, Jul/16 6:30pm is the date. Anabelle’s Bar and Bistro in downtown San Francisco is the place. Full address: Anabelle’s Bar and Bistro (just left of [...]

On today’s show we’ve got exciting news about a special Photo Day on TWiT Live, hosted by our good friend Chris Marquardt. I’ll be joining Chris on air at 4pm pacific (midnight UK time). We’ve also got another quick tip showing some of the new targeted adjustment features in Photoshop CS4. These features have been ported over from Lightroom and make editing your images much more natural. And of course we have a new assignment ready for our next show – the big Episode 100!

• Chris Marquardt’s Photo Day agenda
• TWiT Live
• With music from George Thorogood and the Destroyers

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Photo Day 2009, live on the TWiT Network on July 15th! Simple story: Leo Laporte hands Chris keys to TWiT Cottage. Chris sends shoutout into world of photography. Photographers from all kinds of fields show up to talk photography. Date: Jul/15 Time: 11 AM to 5 PM (Pacific Time) Location: » TWiT Live TV Guests: John Chiara (the big camera), [...]

Join us in the Shalimar restaurant in San Francisco while we discuss focal lengths, street photography and lamb chops. » Download the MP3 for this episode Show Links: San Francisco Street Safari - The Workshop Shalimar Restaurant » Get the show for free in iTunes » Get the show for free using RSS

On July 15th our old friend Chris Marquardt, the host of Tips From The Top Floor, will be taking the reigns at TWiT live while Leo is away in China.  Chris will host the TWiT Live feed all day and has an array of fascinating guests. A full run down of the Photo Day schedule is on Chris’ site and I’m excited to say that I’ll be one of his guests at 4pm PST – that’s midnight UK time. Chris’ other guests include Catherine Hall, Frederick Van Johnson. John Chiara, Jon Miller and Ron Pepper.

So please come along and watch as much of the day as you can and in particular I’d be over the moon if you joined me at 4pm PST to fly the flag on TWiT for PhotoWalkthrough!

• TWiT Live
• Chris Marquardt’s Photo Day
• Tips From The Top Floor

Chris & Leo review images from the “silhouette” assignment Show Links: » Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy »The TWiT netcast network »Tech Guy flickr group » Download the MP3 for this episode » Get the show for free in iTunes » Get the show for free using RSS

[See post to watch Flash video] Watch in high quality (right click to save) For a change, here’s a tech guy video episode. Are scratched lenses really that bad? Show Links: Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy The TWiT netcast network Tech Guy flickr group » Get the show for free in iTunes » Get the show for free using RSS

Over the years it has turned into a nice tradition to do a pre-workshop meet-up that is open for everybody to join, to hang out, to have a beer and to talk photography. Or other stuff. Thursday, Jul/9 6:30pm is the date. Anabelle’s Bar and Bistro in downtown San Francisco is the place. Full address: Anabelle’s Bar and Bistro [...]

The members of the Tech Guy flickr group have sent in their questions (thanks orbitgal for compiling the list) and Chris answers them. Show Links: » Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy » The TWiT netcast network » Tech Guy flickr group » Download the MP3 for this episode » Get the show for free in iTunes » Get the show for [...]

Worried about scratching your lens? Find out how bad it really is. Flying with photo gear? Learn what to look for. Had a lens falling off your 5D Mark II? Or the camera falling off your lens? Find out more here. Also: Geotagging part II July/15 is Photo Day - live on the TWiT Network! The Everest Trek [...]

How do you effectively sift through thousands of images? What’s all that excitement about geotagging your images? Find the answers to these and more questions on today’s show. Mark your calendars! Chris will host the 2009 Photo Day on Jul/15 on the TWiT Network. more… Send in your questions and comments as an iPhone 3.0 Voice Memo [...]

In this stand-alone tutorial we have a little fun decorating a netbook using our own photograph printed on moo stickers. We cover how to create the stickers in Photoshop using guides and slices then we have a quick timelapse of sticking them on the netbook. As a bonus Moo.com have given us a promo code to get 10% discount on the stickers used so you can try this yourself. Use promo code pwtmoo09 at the checkout.

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Taking pictures in winter can have its pitfalls, especially when it comes to temperature and to taking photographs in snow. Listen to Chris and Leo discuss winter photography questions. Show Links: » Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy » The TWiT netcast network » Download the MP3 for this episode » Get the show for free in iTunes » Get the show [...]

[See post to watch Flash video] Watch in high quality (right click to save) One week in Kathmandu two weeks on our way to Mt. Everest. The Everest Trek 2009 - not only the world’s highest photo workshop, but a truly life-changing event for all the participants. Follow along in this teaser episode and get a first [...]

Today we introduce the new CS4 tabbed windows interface and show you how to wrestle under control the tool palettes. We’ve also got a brand new composition segment showing you how to shoot panning shots with all the basics plus some advanced tips. There’s a new assignment and we review the entries to our last assignment, Pencil, to the music of Matthew Ebel.

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The Highest Photography Workshop In The World. Chris and Jon Miller are back from Nepal and they join on this episode to discuss the trek and the photography workshop. You can find Jon on his excellent video podcast The Rest of Everest at www.restofeverest.com Please remember to visit netvibes.com/everesttrek to keep up to speed on the trekking team [...]

Landscape photography is such a quiet and relaxed business. Thinks Chris… until he gets rudely interrupted by a few members of the bovine species. A truly electric show! » Download the MP3 for this episode » Get the show for free in iTunes » Get the show for free using RSS

Big numbers in this show. 2000 pictures, 20 memory cards, 80 GB of rugged hard disk and not enough disk space to save it all… » Download the MP3 for this episode Show Links: The Everest Trek 2009 Join a workshop such as the San Francisco Street Safari in July » Get the show for free in iTunes » Get the [...]