This week I'm still in Italy but this time I'm shooting with my Leica M11. Some landscape photography, some street photography, but as usual mostly in between...
I'm Italian and I'm glad you visited our country it's really beautiful
gallinasullalbero
As a long time viewer of you channel James, I’m really enjoying how your style has changed over the years
The tones you use now really compliment your subjects. It’s fantastic to see a photographer evolve as much as you have.
I’m not at all envious of your Leica either… 😉
Looking forward to next week mate 👍
GlenBarnett
Always great to have my subscription feed blessed with legendary content like this. Thank you James for using your time and talent to help us learn and grow. We appreciate you!
CJAnderson
I did a workshop in NYC when I got my M11 a year ago and it was pretty awkward with a group of 6-7 people. Could never be discreet, everyone looked at what the others were seeing and thinking they had a better subject, etc. I ended up going off on my own and then I enjoyed the sessions later where we went back to edit and discuss our shots, and it was Leica focused so I learned how to use my camera to its fullest. I was one and done after that. Never been on a workshop for landscape or architecture but I imagine from what I've seen on your other videos with Nigel and others that it is more conducive to a group photography experience.
gerryphilpott
8:32 👌Absolutely MAGNIFICENT work. Great work again James, thanks for another great clip!
FeralGinger
Thanks James. Agreed re your fav shot at 8:28. Although, to me, a standout of these for lighting and "mood" is also 5:44.
TWEAKER
I‘m terribly suffering from GAS at the moment, binge watching Leica videos to no end. But interestingly your GX1 pictures from last video impressed me even more. (Not sure if that reduces my suffering)
josephschimmer
Hi from Italy the pick up is called Ape car from Piaggio and it’s a classic here.
Lorenzo_Melocchi
I loved most of the photos you posted here. You have such a great eye for composition. You often see opportunities when I don't see it, whether you are going for a nature walk or walking a city street.
chrisfrye
The light that morning was indeed gorgeous. Great pictures!
IkerZamora
Again, loads of useful info and entertainment at the same time. Excellent channel!
istvanbally
I ran a Photography Meetup in Paris for many years. One of our recurring events was the Sunday Shoot (™😉). The group would meet at a Metro stop around town. I would then divide the group into smaller units of three to five photographers, given everyone the same list of shooting subjects for the day and send everyone off with a rendez-vous time and place. The subjects usually included a color, a geometric element and then some things that they might find in the particular neighborhood we were in, all open to the photographer's interpretation. This was an interesting way to keep people "on topic" but give them the creative freedom to find interesting subjects and compositions.
jameskezman
About the 50 being too narrow, you could do panoramas. It’s not very hard if you hold the camera still and rotate it around itself (to avoid parallax I mean). I do this all the time when I need a wider shot than my current lens can give me. And you don’t have to limit it to one row of photos either. You can for example take a row of photos from right to left and then aim up a bit then take another row of photos from left to right.
just_eirik
Great stuff, James. Super-multi-layered; really nicely coloured.
hankroest
Great video and some beautiful shots. Love your approach to photography. You may already know this, but in case you're curious, the "pickup" is called an ape, which in Italian means bee. Probably not interesting to anybody but, apart from the Ape, the Piaggio group also make the vespa, which means wasp. They are among my favourite vehicles, are quintessentially Italian, and seeing them always brings a smile to my face.
francorosin
you could do the workshop in sicily. There are so many different things to see. And everything is still fairly close, so you can mostly decide spontaneously.
- Etna obviously
- Palermo
- Marsala/Trapani Salina (Windmills)
- Agrigento (Greek temples and scala dei turchi)
- Cefalu, Enna, Taormina, Catania etc
- loads of small lesser known villages
llIlllllIll
Great post, James. I really like the feel and vibe of the work you're doing - feel so much part of being there with you. I have a Q2 and experience the same thing with folks that want to touch and feel. I really like the 28mm lens on the Q2, wide, fast and sharp. Great for travel-type photography, has a small footprint, great for lurking and camping on corners ...
paulbegg
Even though you might have preferred to shoot the Italian street scenes with your 28, I think the results you got with your 50 look really good.
mmSummarit
Years ago I participated in a National Geographic photo workshop based in a resort outside Sienna. There were some group excursions, such as trips to various hilltop towns and to a family owned winery. The trip was made much better with the inclusion of a local photographer as well as a regional guide. The guide and her husband had purchased the vineyard and beautiful old home a few years earlier and restored the home, turning it into a beautiful B and B. The workshop was the typical format of gathering each morning to review the previous day’s images (Two of us were still shooting slide film, and the organizers were ferrying our film to Firenze each evening for overnight processing. I was using Leica MPs, by the way.) The point of this overly long comment is that think the inclusion of the local guide/organizer and local photographer really helped make the workshop a much richer experience than, say, riding around on buses and piling out to take touristic snapshots. I think you should select a few possible locations or areas and spend some time meeting and coordinating with local talent.
bsmukler
That animated intro is adorable, and lovely. Good job! It makes the start of the videos feel different, and very chill. It's nice.
