#10 In The Zone With Richard Pickup

We chat this week by all-round good egg Richard Pickup Richard is a teacher, street photographer and user of an 8x10 Intrepid camera using it for, amongst other things, making portraits and contact prints. Richard has a great web site which is full of useful stuff for film enthusiasts. As he recently published a blog all about the zone system we thought it would be a good idea to spend some time talking about this often misunderstood subject ……..and of course Simon asks every guest we have about it so rather like the monkey / typewriter / Shakespeare thing eventually he will understand it.   Links and references arising from the discussions: Andrew again recommended two books by Bruce Barnbaum to help with the whole previsualisation thing https://read.amazon.co.uk/kp/embed?asin=B00VB46KLCapreview=newtabalinkCode=kpearef_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_GGljDbZF5MBTR https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Photography-2nd-Personal-Expression/dp/1681982102/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=bruce+barnbaumaqid=1562687592as=gatewayasr=8-1   We discussed the work of John Blakemore and his approach to the zone system – here is a great book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blakemores-Black-White-Photography-Workshop/dp/0715317210/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=john+blakemoreaqid=1564130083as=gatewayasr=8-1   At some point we discussed night photography and how the zone system works here – two twitter folks who are night photography fans and exponents are Sandeep - https://twitter.com/Givemeabiscuit And Ian Nutt https://barnabynutt.com/   For some reason we mentioned The Hypersensitive Photographer’s Podcast https://anchor.fm/hypersensitive   Richard learnt a lot from Michael Freemans books, in particular https://www.amazon.co.uk/Photographers-Eye-Understand-Composition-Photography/dp/1781577307/ref=sr_1_2?hvadid=3171150263ahvbmt=beahvdev=cahvqmt=eakeywords=michael+freeman+the+photographers+eyeaqid=1564130419as=gatewayasr=8-2   On a similar theme https://www.amazon.co.uk/Photographers-Eye-John-Szarkowski/dp/087070527X/ref=sr_1_3?hvadid=3171150263ahvbmt=beahvdev=cahvqmt=eakeywords=michael+freeman+the+photographers+eyeaqid=1564130490as=gatewayasr=8-3   We gave shout outs to   Isabel Curdes https://isabelcurdes.com/   Ruth Storey https://www.instagram.com/roo_roo_s/?hl=en   Richard’s links https://www.richardpickup.com/   https://twitter.com/richard_pickup     LFPP links -   https://largeformatphotographypodcast.podbean.com/   ko-fi.com/largeformatphotographypodcast   You can join in the fun at our Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2296599290564807/   Get Twitter updates for the show from Andrew – https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper   Or from Simon – https://twitter.com/simonfor   Email feedback, ideas and questions for the podcast largeformatphotographypodcast@gmail.com Podcast Hosts Social Media presence   Simon Forster www.classiclensespodcast.com   www.simonforsterphotographic.co.uk   https://stores.ebay.co.uk/itsfozzyphotography   https://www.flickr.com/photos/125323761@N07/   https://www.facebook.com/SimonForsterPhotographic/   https://www.instagram.com/simonforsterphotographic/   https://twitter.com/SimonFor     Andrew Bartram https://anchor.fm/thelenslesspodcast   https://andrewbartram.wordpress.com   https://www.instagram.com/warboyssnapper   https://www.imstagram.com/warboyssnapper_pinholes   https://www.flickr.com/photos/warboyssnapper/   https://twitter.com/warboyssnapper

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