#10 In The Zone With Richard Pickup

2019-07-26

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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 ...

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=B00VB46KLC&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_GGljDbZF5MBTR

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Photography-2nd-Personal-Expression/dp/1681982102/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=bruce+barnbaum&qid=1562687592&s=gateway&sr=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+blakemore&qid=1564130083&s=gateway&sr=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=3171150263&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=michael+freeman+the+photographers+eye&qid=1564130419&s=gateway&sr=8-2

On a similar theme

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Photographers-Eye-John-Szarkowski/dp/087070527X/ref=sr_1_3?hvadid=3171150263&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=michael+freeman+the+photographers+eye&qid=1564130490&s=gateway&sr=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

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