On The Road with Thorsten Overgaard · July 2022
By: Thorsten Overgaard
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This is the ongoing journal of my travels, photography, experience with people, places and equipment.
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"I would like to commend you on your amazing website. I first visited it when I purchased a Leica X1 and was looking for inspiration. You website proved invaluable. In the process I fell in love with the M9 and I got the M9 with the Summicron 50mm (iv) last week. Needless to say that after reading (sorry better said studying each and everyone of your Leica pages) I felt at ease with the new camera. Thank you for being honest about your experiences."
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- R. E. (Atlanta) |
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Clearwater, Florida
Clearwater FL, USA, July 2022
"Writing holiday" i Clearwater Florida. Time for reading, writing, editing, studying ... and water the flowers.
Leica M11 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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"I have now read every article on your eminent website, some more than once. Pleas write a new one, about .. anything."
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- R. H. (Sweden) |
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Met Jake (17) again today, who did my workshop in Florida a few weeks ago. He just got himself a Ricoh GF IIIx, but here he is using his girlfriends film camera. He edits his photos every day. Good boy! Leica M11 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Layla making drip coffee on the weight. Leica M11 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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"I must point out that you have been one of the most important influencer that help me made the move from Canon to Leica. I admire your work and also your straight forward, easy going and grounded way to teaching."
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- M. P. |
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Our private paradise. Leica M11 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Our private paradise. Leica SL2 with Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2. © Thorsten Overgaard.
A self-playing classic Stainway. Leica M11 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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"I've been reading a lot of what's on your website, and I love it!
For a non-professional, it´s clear, easy to understand and very useful. And it's what makes the most sense to me, among many other stuff I've read."
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- B. K. (Brazil) |
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Leica SL2 with Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Layla Bego. Leica R9 DMR with Leica 80mm Summilux-R f/1.4 . © Thorsten Overgaard.
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Sunset in Clearwater FL. Leica R9 DMR with Leica 80mm Summilux-R f/1.4 . © Thorsten Overgaard.
Working to get the Leica M11 colors to look right. Leica M11 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
A Ford Mercury Grand Marquis 1983 in the hot sun. Leica M11 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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"I have been reading through your M9 post and watching your channel. You inspired me to get a Leica M9. I paired it with a 35mm 3.5 from 1960 for some cool vintage effects. And I also got a 50mm 1.4 TTartision. I am going to be using the camera for automotive photography as that has always been a passion of mine. Thank you for all of your articles and efforts on this camera and supporting the community!"
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- Z. K. (New Jersey) |
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Leica SL2 with Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica SL2 with Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica SL2 with Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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- P. W. (Hong Kong) |
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Soft overcast magic light vs Sunshine with shadows
Playing around with the Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2 on the Leica SL2. Here is an example of "hard" contrast in sunlight vs overcast soft light. Will use this for something when I want to illustrate the problem most people have with understanding that sunshine isn't perfect photo weather. You can make great hard contrast photos with sunshine (if you like), but the camera simply can't capture both details in hightlight and shadows at the same time. Thus, overcast or soft light enables details in the light and shade – because it's within the dynamic range of the camera.
Soft light on a shady day. All details from dark shadow to brightest highlight can be recorded in detail by the camera sensor. Leica SL2 with Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Sunlight is hard contrast light because the highlights are extremely bright, and the dynamic range necessary to stretch from capturing details in the bright highlight to the darkest shadows is not in a camera sensor. To obtain a photograph with details in both shadows and highlights, the dynamic range has to be limited; as in the photo above in shade. Leica SL2 with Minolta Rokkor 58mm f/1.2. © Thorsten Overgaard.
The sensor of any camera has a limited dynamic range so you must choose if you want to capture the highlight details (and the shadow details are in black), or the shadow details (and the brigher areas are all white) - or you must work with light that doesn't offer such a wide dynamic range. The human eye suppsedly has a dynamic range that can see from black to entire white. Which is true, except that the way we do it with the eyes is that we capture one scene at the time, then stitch them together mentally to make a whole. But of course, this perception of the whole is what confuses most people: "Why can't I photograph what I see?". © Thorsten Overgaard.
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I aign of the times. Many people have moved from California and New York to Florida and Texas in the recent year. As a result, the prices of rentals and houses have gone sky high. But also you see many houses for sale where the owners often want to cash in now with the high prices, and then rent somethign till the prices drop again and they can buy another house for a low price (except there are very few rentals available dur to the high demand). Leica M11 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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