On The Road with Thorsten Overgaard · May 2020
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'm proud of you continuing around the world, educating and developing the Leica and rangefinder market. It’s a shame you are so under-appreciated by Leica. They should hire you at a very large salary to be their world wide ambassador at large … then leave you alone to continue to do what you’re doing now. It would be money well spent."
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- L. W. |
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Los Angeles
West Hollywood, USA. May 1, 2020
Visited Los Angeles during the "pandemic", packed down my stuff, relocated and flew back to Florida. In Los Angeles, most stores and take-out coffee windows inisist that visitors wear face masks. Very dramatic. Even saw people jogging with masks. On a positive note, flights are cheap and there is no waiting in security in the airport, and some of the people I met was not buying into the drama and instead focused on being productive.
My lamps ready to ship to Florida. © Thorsten Overgaard.
I've deliberately not taken photos of the "pandemic". But this one of a fellow passenger in full hazmat suit I had to preserve. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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"I've followed you for two years. You make photography simple so I can understand it.
I started as a child and didn't understand it then. Now I bought a Leica."
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-A. M. |
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The Von Maxi SL camera bag out for a test run. This is a new bag designed for the Leica SL2 with lenses, handmade in the finest soft italian calfskin. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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"I often use your words in my lectures"
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- K. M. (preofessor and lecturer) |
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New season of Magic of Light Photography TV
Florida, May 2020
Teaser for the new season 6 of Magic of Light TV. View and make your voice heard.
The studio it taking shape with Kino Flo lights, Sennheiser microphones and Leica SL2 cameras.
Clearwater Beach
Clearwater, Florida, USA. May 2, 2020
 Clearwater Beach. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 BC. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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"Received the camera strap. It’s beautiful and quality is superior. You get what you pay for! "
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- M. T. |
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Clearwater Beach. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 BC. © Thorsten Overgaard.
 John out and about Saturday morning. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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"Nice work, Thorsten! I use Nikon, Leica and Hasselblad here.
Your neckstraps are nice. I like the feeling!"
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- A. N. |
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Young artist at work. Commissioned a murial by 15 year old artist Mia Bego.
Mia Bego. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Mia Bego. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 BC. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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"May God bless you and your work and all you do to encourage others who have chosen to follow a path similar to the one you are on."
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- D. D. |
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Virtual LHSA meeting via Zoom. It's Leica product manager Stefan Daniel talking about future products.
 The garden. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 BC. © Thorsten Overgaard.
The garden. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 BC. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Layla Bego. Leica M240 with Leica 90mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Restaurants have reopened in Florida. Here's the chef getting some fresh stuff for the dish. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95.
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New eBook from Thorsten Overgaard:
"The Portrait Book
– How to Make People Look Beautiful" |
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"Love the book.
Very insightful and very well done"
"You are my favorite author" |
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- What is the one right thing in all portraits?
- How to do research for portraits?
- What is the secret to light in portraits?
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"You are a brilliant photographer and an inspiration to all photographers all around the world."
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- J. E. |
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Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Restaurants are open, dinner and street life is back. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Laurie and Faut. Runs the cool Basimo Beach Cafe on Clearwater Beach, Florida. Leica M10-P with Leica 21mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
People out and about on the water and on bicycles.
Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 BC. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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"Thank you for writing books. I love to read them and get inspired.
Hope to see you again soon. All the best."
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- G.S. |
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Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica M240 with Leica 90mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica M240 with Leica 90mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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Get my Leica Presets
for Lightroom and Capture One
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Overgaard's Leica Presets for: Lightroom CC Classic (7.4 -->)
Lightroom CC (version 1 through 7.2)
Lightroom CC (cloud-based 1.0)
I have made a few essential Presets for Lightroom which do minor adjustments to the Leica files, so as to get the tones exactly how I want them.
The Presets have as their ideal, the Leica M9 sensor, as well as the Kodachrome film (which also happens to be the ideal for Leica, when they developed the Leica M9 sensor). Not that it matters much, but that is the reason why I made my own Presets: To get the that look, rather than a “digital sensor look”.
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Overgaard's Leica Presets
for Capture One Pro
I have made a few essential Styles for Capture One that does minor adjustments to the Leica files, so as to get the tones exactly how I want them.
The Styles have as their ideal, the Leica M9 sensor, as well as the Kodachrome film (which also happens to be the ideal for Leica, when they developed the Leica M9 sensor). Not that it matters much, but that is the reason why I made my own Styles: To get the that look, rather than a “digital sensor look”.
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Read more about my Lightroom Workflow on this page |
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Read more about my Capture One Workflow on this page |
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Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
The sale of creons have sky-rocket recently. Here is a clue as to what's happening. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Cool that John and Alicia are married and have each their Leica. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0 LHSA. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard.
How to get away with Street Photography
I released a new easy-going and hands-on video class series filmed in New York.
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"I love the photography books that I purchased from you recently."
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- M. P.. |
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New soft leather camera pouch from Overgaard
New camera pouch handlade in soft calfskin and handmade in Italy. With a discrete "Always Wear a Camera" in silver stamped onto it. Fits a Leica Q2 or Leica M with lens. Orange inside and with orange edging details, zipper across body (so it can open wider), inside protection of zipper (so it doesn't scratch the camera). Available in black or green.
Auch! - The Camera Pouch im soft Italian leather comes in two colors, the Safari Olive Green and Black. With artisan details to die for.
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"Hi Thorsten , I purchased your Capture one survival kit last week and am making my way through it currently. I just wanted to thank you for a great production there is lots of great information there . Coming from the Lightroom background and previously having purchased the Lightroom survival kit, the concepts are congruent."
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- R. P. |
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Mia Bego. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 BC. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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"Unlike other books I’ve read on the subject of composition, the 'Composition in Photography - The Photographer as Storyteller' is not a reference manual (or imitation of such.) Thorsten Overgaard is quite frank from the very first pages that the purpose of the book is to inspire and share his experiences and techniques, rather than analyze the work of photographers as a gallery curator or an art critic would. I find that most approachable and practical way to teach someone something. Think about it like working with a vastly experienced co-worker and mentor, rather than sitting in a class. I love how hands-on and laid back Thorsten Overgaard's witting style is."
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- T. T. |
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Buy the new eBook
"Composition in Photography"
by Thorsten von Overgaard |
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Composition in Photography
- The Photographer as Storyteller
This book will inspire your photographic eye and make you wonder about all the possibilities you can now see.
In this exciting new book Thorsten Overgaard expands and simplifies the subject of composition. It's elevated from geometric patterns to actual storytelling by practical use of space, rhythm, time, colors, emotions and intuition in your photography.
- The Basics of Composition.
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Composition in the Third Dimension.
- Picture Stories.
- Accenturating with Light.
- Photograph as a Melody.
- Which lens are you?
- Fear of sharpness?.
- Vanishing Point.
- The most important
element of composition
- What is the unknown secret
why it is you mostly can't get
the Rule of Thirds to work?
- How does a camera see
differently than the eye?
- What does quantum physics and
photography have in common?
- What's the greatest adventure you can
set out on in photography these days?
- A Sense of Geometry.
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