3 Things I Have Learned So Far From Peter Lindbergh

0:00 Introduction
1:07 What Are The Reasons For Shooting Medium Format?
1:24 Shooting Purposefully
2:50 New to Medium Format? Here's How to Get Started!
5:02 G.A.S'd? It's Not About The Camera!
5:20 How to Start Creating Before You Get To Your Shoot
5:53 The Wiser Plan - Who, What, Where, Why Are You Shooting?
13:09 Peter Lindbergh's Key 3 Tips Are

I've been recently reading and absorbing the wonderful work of Peter Lindbergh in this book buy Tashen 40th edition and I've got a whole series of books just like this but for different photographers and different art genres as well.

This is the one l picked up and I wanted to delve in and learn more about photography. Understand how we can create photos which are real, moving and represent really essentially how and what we see around us today. Something that’s an accurate representation of what we can see.

As I was reading through this book.I found three things that have struck me so far about what Peter Says about photography.

I want to go through this today in this video and hopefully in combination with the shoot that I did with Amy recently. You’re going to see some wonderful pictures, a little bit of BTS footage but also my reflections on what I'm actually doing here and what I've learnt so far in this very short period of time from Peter about photography as a whole.

The first thing that came up for me was that he says larger formats are like a presentation and that really struck me because this is really true.

This is something that I have been doing in the last year on YouTube. I've been shooting a lot with my Bronica Zenza ETRS, the 6by45 camera and more recently as you've seen from my videos I've been trying to work with my Fuji GSWiii 6 x 9 camera.

What are the reasons why I've been shooting on larger format or in this case on Medium Format? The size of the image itself on Medium Format, you can see a lot more detail, there's a lot more depth and you can see it right out the back from the development process itself with slide film. For me, I really couldn't agree more with Lindbergh that larger format is for presentation work.

As you can see through the images that I'm going to be putting up here that really you've Gotta think through what you're shooting and why are you shooting those particular images. I think often we get distracted by the volume of photography, so we shoot lots of things without really thinking about what we are presenting.

Who is it that would be interested in looking at these images? Why would they be looking at these images? What might they find interesting about it?

We did a couple of hours here and the thing was, before you even get to the subject of shooting. You've got to think about what you're shooting? Who are you shooting with? Why are you shooting with them? Why are you shooting that particular place? What are you hoping to get out of it? What are you hoping to create?

I had a lot of communication with Amy in advance and for me looking at her profile and looking at the work she had done before. I needed to find somebody particularly, with the image that I had in my mind of this beautiful summer's day. I wanted to capture something floral, something which had a lot of colours in it.

I really hope that from my brief experience of learning from Peter Lindbergh, I hope these things will help you to think about how you're shooting and why you are shooting.

I've been thinking well about the purpose of what I'm doing. Is this helping anyone else and I think through this video these three things in particular will help you to really think about what you're shooting become more perhaps, if economy is important for you economical with are you shooting, but also that you are creating pictures which are worth Talking about.

I think that is what photographers, the best photographers are able to do. I really hope that this inspires you to go out, learn from other photographers and to create some wonderful images.

Let me know your thoughts about this topic in the comments below. I would love to see what your thoughts are about Medium Format photography.

Do you think it's important? Do you think that Lindbergh is right or wrong about medium format, large format, 4 x 5 or 8 x 10 is purely for presentation work? Or do you disagree? Do you think that it has other purposes? In the meantime here’s another video to help you on your photographic adventures!

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[jamesprivet]

Stunning image at 1:44 wonderful pose, almost like it was a shot taken in the late 60s! May I ask which film you used for that one please? HP5?