This is the Improved Photography Podcast episode number 168.

Hey everybody and welcome back to the Improved Photography Podcast.

We are excited to sit down with you virtually and talk a little bit of photography nerdy

for the next hour.

Today I am joined by Mr. Brian McGucken, history teacher by day, saving

students from poorly informed history, and NFL photographer, an event photographer photographer and workshop instructor by night and weekend.

Hey Brian, how you doing?

Doing good.

And we are also joined today by Connor Hibbs, a new voice on the podcast.

Connor can you just introduce yourself in a sentence or two?

Yeah, absolutely.

I am a portrait photographer located in Colorado Springs, Colorado,

focused on studio lighting.

Very cool.

Well, we have a couple questions

that have come into us from the,

from our Improved Photography Podcast group on Facebook.

Barbara Ricker asks,

are bubble levels on tripods just there to torment me?

Seriously, does anyone have any quick tips for just getting things level?

Now I can understand this question because those bubble levels are always placed on like the

worst possible spot on the ball head. They you know like Nick even had one that is

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