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On The Road with Thorsten Overgaard · March 2017
By: Thorsten Overgaard
Add to Flipboard Magazine.
This is the ongoing journal of my travels, photography, experience with people, places and equipment.
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"I just love your videos on YouTube. I found you while doing a search for Leica Q. Thank you for the really good videos and the free eBook on your site.
I originally got into photography back in high school, I learned on a Yashica Electro 35… I fell in love with the Leica brand doing research for a camera.
I just wanted to let you know how I appreciate all your hard work in delivering information on the Leica brand..."
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Old and new cameras
Los Angeles, USA, March 1-5, 2017
Here is a photo of my good ol' trusted Leica M4 hanging around.
Leica M4 film rangefinder with Leica 50mm Summicron-M f/2.0 II Rigid. © 2017 Thorsten Overgaard.
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"I bought your Lightroom material. Great stuff!"
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Leica M10 Lightroom Presets
March 5, 2017
I released my Lightroom presets for the Leica M10 which deals with how to get great black & white tones from the Leica M10 DNG-files. More here.
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"My wife game me this course and I absolutely love it.
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The NEW
Overgaard Photography Extension Course
The waiting list is over!
After a couple of years with a long waiting list, I have finally redesigned the course so I can handle the students interested in this course. Not only that. The number of pages has gone up from 120 to 330..!
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Chad Monnin from Ohio working the light in the streets of Old Havana in Cuba at the Overgaard Workshop Cuba. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © 2017 Thorsten Overgaard.
Cuba
Havana, Cuba, March 6-11, 2017
I've tried to get to Cuba a couple of times and had a fairly full workshop; but always some weeks before the workshop people started writing that they would rather go somewhere else because it was difficult to get to Cuba.
This time I decided I would go to Cuba no matter what, and those who could make it, could join. As it turned out, the same as always happened. We ended up being a very exclusive group of Leica users from the Middle East and USA. But mainly both I and others learned that it is in fact easy to travel from the US to Cuba! I've written a write-up on the Cuba Workshop page, so I hope the next workshops in the autumn 2017 and spring 2018 will show a full group!
Vedado, Cuba. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © 2017 Thorsten Overgaard.
What is Cuba?
It's not that you have to know or learn everything about Cuba on your first trip. Cuba is one of the places to explore, and it may take a while. Also there is only internet in parks and hotels, so Google maps and all the other features we often use to guid us, well have to do without. In Cuba you will just have to use your perceptions and observe.
Persoanlly, my only research when first visitied Cuba was to know when the time for sunrise and sunset, the temperature at day and night, the distance from my place to Old Havana city centre, and making a note of the two best coffee places.
When Christopher Columbus discovered the island on October 27, 1492, he named it Juana in honor of Don Juan, heir to the Crown of Spain, who had sponsored the voyage. It wasn't established as evidence that Cuba was in fact an island till 1508 when Sebastian de Ocambo sailed arount it. The conclusion is, if they spent 16 years learning that about the island, then why would you have to know everything before you go?
My next Overgaard Workshop in Cuba is open for signing up. I've made a complete guide on the page on what to do and how to get to Cuba.
My breakfast in Cuba consisted of strong coffee, fresh juice, American pancakes, fruit, bread and eggs. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © 2017 Thorsten Overgaard.
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In this easy to read and apply eBook,
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"I've bought the new book - made a start reading it - it is really interesting.
I know it’s basic at the beginning but it isn't written in a patronizing way. I have been taking photographs for many years and have been lucky enough to be paid to take them for the last seven years; but it's always good to be taken back to the start"
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""Really enjoy your writing and teaching"
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"I love your insights on photography."
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"I just love your videos on YouTube. I found you while doing a search for Leica Q. Thank you for the really good videos and the free eBook on your site.
I originally got into photography back in high school, I learned on a Yashica Electro 35… I fell in love with the Leica brand doing research for a camera.
I just wanted to let you know how I appreciate all your hard work in delivering information on the Leica brand..."
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It's My Birthday
March 25, 2017
This time, I'm turning 17 ... just like the previous years.
Family instagramming. © 2017 Thosten Overgaard.
Composer David Campbell. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95.
Guess who's got tickets to the Justin Bieber concert in a few months?
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"Dear Thorsten
I am enjoying your YouTube lectures and website.
I have been a Leica shooter for 44 years and have many film and digital cameras."
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- A. P. (Vancouver) |
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The Survival Kit has been taught to thousands in workshops and in this Survival Kit. What does it do? It make you enjoy taking and making photos, and it increases your production considerabely. Most important of all, it'll give you back ownership of your files (which you will understand why is so important, once you have bought the Survival Kit and started applying its methods).
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Thorsten von Overgaard hanging out in Malibu. Leica M10 with Leica 28mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4.
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The Leica Q with my new limited RED ventilated hood. Very proud of it!
Comedian Jim Ross Meskimen and family. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95.
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Matteo Perin and I went see Al Pacino in his play and chat backstage. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © 2017 Thorsten Overgaard.
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