Len’s Plan

A proposed roadmap for Len’s Club

Presentations

  • The power of the positive

  • Hegarty on Creativity - There are no rules

  • Colour theory

  • Colour spaces

  • Gestalt Design Principles

  • Japanese concepts for designers

  • Understanding geometry in photographic composition

Documentaries - Exploring photographers, concepts and places

  • Len Metcalf - Len’s Monochrome in the Blue Mountains (pilot)

Weekly Exercises

  • Continuing weekly surprises

Book Reviews & Photographer Introductions

  • Chris Bell - The Tarkine

  • Art Wolf - Human Canvas

  • William Neil - A retrospective

  • Tim Rudman - Island an uneasy calm

  • Henry Gold - Wild Places

  • Elliot Porter - In wildness lies the preservation of the world

  • Peter Dombrovskis - On the mountain

  • Micheal Kenna - Holga

  • Fang Ho - A Hong Kong Memoir

  • Doug Chinnery - Abstract Mindedness

  • John Blakemore - Photographs 1955 - 2010

Articles

  • The Better Photography Magazine Complete Collection

  • On Landscape Magazine

  • Previously published articles

  • New member only articles

Interviews

  • Chris Bell Wilderness Photographer

  • Chris Bell on Peter Dombrovskis

  • Jules Fox - Learning to be an artist

  • Peter Adams - Devoting a life to a project

  • Peter Eastway - Competitions

  • Peter Hill

  • Ben Coope

  • Chris Darwin - turning ideas into reality

  • Mike Edmonson

  • Member suggestions

Tutorials

  • How to hold your camera

  • How to use your tripod

  • Qualities of natural light

  • Portraiture

  • Cleaning and caring for your lens

  • What to take bushwalking

  • Abstract photography techniques

Post Processing

  • NIK Silver EFX

  • Processing Examples

  • Overview of Lightroom

  • Catalogues and how lightroom works

  • Importing photographs

  • Organising folders

  • Using Collections and Collection Sets

  • Key Wording

  • Sorting and finding photographs in your collection

  • Quick develop & processing from library

  • Processing in the basic panel

Miscellaneous

  • Humor

  • Len’s musings on photography

  • Quotes to think about

Uncategorised

  • News, exhibitions, events, announcements

TAGS

Separate from the above categories

  • Monochrome (Black and White)

  • Colour

  • Composition

  • Creativity

  • Art

  • Abstract

  • Portraiture

  • Landscape

  • Nudes

  • Wildlife

  • Environment - Conservation

  • etc