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Len Metcalf’s Newsletter
Giving feedback to other photographers requires effort. Before we start the learning exercises. You need to understand the power of positive feedback.
Wynn Bullock is one of my favorite photographers, and is up there as one of my influences. I must get one of his books one day.
Len muses of his latest photographic discovery when looking back through his work from a year ago. He then discusses how he uses time to help decide which are the masterpieces.
Len's presentation to the On Landscape, A Meeting of the Minds Conference in The Lake District, United Kingdom, November 2016.
Len has just spent a month with his Olympus M.Zukio 25mm f 1.2 Pro Lens, and in this review he discusses his observations. He also shows direct comparison with the Olympus 25mm f1.8 lens and the Voitlander 25mm f 0.95 lens.
So far 2016 has been a great year of photography for me, here are some of my favourite shots. It is amazing that all of these were taken on workshops. Either ones I have lead, or ones I have attended.
Learning to draw will improve your photography. Learning to draw in charcoal will help you understand and compose in tones. In this short article Len explains why you would want to learn to draw, and how to get started..
" My photography is not ‘brain photography’. I put my brain under the pillow when I shoot. I shoot with my heart and with my stomach." Anders Petersen
John wrote to me yesterday and asked me for some advice about choosing a Mirrorless camera. I started writing back to him, and thought I should turn this into a blog post about my current thoughts on which cameras to consider when going mirrorless.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Photography may be the easiest artistic medium, with the possibility that someone may accidentally create a masterpiece. This therefore makes it the hardest artistic medium. Chuck Close explains this further very eloquently...
Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.
-Frank Capra
"...the more preoccupied I become with photography and with producing 'results', the less productive becomes my vision. The more open and receptive I am to find those objects of beauty that are symbols of the mysterious and unknowable. The search is always more important than the goal."
- Peter Dombrovskis
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
These days there is a bewildering amount of Micro Four Thirds lenses to choose from. Here I discuss my favorites and a couple of my recommendations.
Alan Schaller gives us a few tips on black and white photography