Len Metcalf's on-line visual diary. You can see and purchase Len's fine art prints at
Lens Art
Len teaches, mentors and conducts tours for photographers in the Blue Mountains, Australia. For more information see:
Lens School
Simon Carter talks about his rock climbing photography here in the stunning Blue Mountains World Heritage Area
Take your photography to the next level http://lensschool.com
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A course for intermediate & advanced photographers. 32 three hour sessions over a year. Hands on… understand the creative process, develop your skills in composition and critiquing images. Develop portfolios and projects. Be inspired by studying master photographers. Get discipline by being accountable for your work. Complete a number of exercises designed to take you to the next level. Learn in a supportive learning community. Make new friends.
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For more information see the website. http://lensschool.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89:lens-masterclass&catid=34:workshops&Itemid=150
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Take your photography to the next level http://lensschool.com
A course for intermediate & advanced photographers. 32 three hour sessions over a year. Hands on… understand the creative process, develop your skills in composition and critiquing images. Develop portfolios and projects. Be inspired by studying master photographers. Get discipline by being accountable for your work. Complete a number of exercises designed to take you to the next level. Learn in a supportive learning community. Make new friends.
Help by telling your photographic friends about this unique educational opportunity.
For more information see the website. http://lensschool.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89:lens-masterclass&catid=34:workshops&Itemid=150
or contact Len for a course brochure.
To take better portraits with your digital camera turn off your auto focus, and put your camera in single shot mode… Make it your goal that each shot you take is to be a keeper. The machine gun approach only fills your hard drive with junk, and doesn’t help your eye or your hands. It also makes sorting out your good shots a harder and more time consuming process.
You choose where your plane of focus lies, and which bits you want out of focus, not the camera… You choose the moment to press the shutter, not the camera nor should rely on your luck. You should also be choosing the exposure, and ISO too… but that is for another post…
If you are taking portraits you need to watch your subject, be patient and wait for that moment. When it all works. Have your camera fully ready. Focused, appropriate exposure, the aperture you want, the shutter speed you want, framed… composed…
READY…
WAITING
WAITING
WAITING
ALL MOST….
WAITING
WAITING
HUMMMM…. that’s it FIRE….
GOT IT!
Now you have one good shot… No excuses… if your not doing it this way your being lazy, or perhaps you want a sports photographer or a movie maker.
Springwood photography club enjoyed a presentation by yours truly last night, illustrated with my landscape photographs. It was fantastic to have such an interested and appreciative audience. Overall the feed back was excellent. Such a lovely group of people too. It was nice to catch up with Mike Dingley, one of my past students who was on my first landscape photography workshop, who was able to tell some stories about this first workshop.
I must say I really enjoyed it, and am buzzing this morning. Looking forward to the next one. Have been up late making modifications to my presentation. So if your belong to a camera club and would like me to come and talk about Landscapes through Len’s lens, please drop me a line.
The Grose Valley is full of Donkey Orchids in full bloom. Dad used to call them Donkey Ears, and for some reason I thought they were called Yellow Beards. But alas, they are probably Diuris orientis, though not really having any expertise in this area I might be wrong. The valley is full of them on the sun light facing valley walls. As it was very windy while I was there, alas there are no successful photos to show you of them.. Oh well…
Spring your clocks forward in spring, and fall them back in the fall. Easy way to remember…
