On The Road with Thorsten Overgaard · October 2012
By: Thorsten Overgaard
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This is the ongoing journal of my travels, photography, experience with people, places and equipment.
Understanding the Leica M Monochrom
BERLIN, October 28, 2012:
It's an ongoing project of mine since I got it a few weeks ago, trying to figure out what this camea is about and what it does for me.
Berlin, October 28, 2012. Leica M Monochrom at 3200 ISO with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/1.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
As we had dinner in Berlin after the workshop, we sat next to a table with a candle light where a English couple sat down. I shot some photos at 3200 ISO (1/350 sec) and I somehow discovered a new quality of the Leica M Monochrom.
But what I find intriguing about this candle light lit shot is how it reminds me of paintings. I really like it, or I like something about it. I'm sure I will use this effect one day to create something worthwhile ...
Berlin, October 28, 2012. Leica M Monochrom at 3200 ISO with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/1.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
My goal for editing
DENMARK, October 30, 2012:
What the goal should be is having a camera sensor and lens that captures reality as close as possible in sharpness, colors and all. And then improve very little on this to make it even more alive and natural. That is my philosophy.
Working through 3,000+ unanswered e-mails (including some spam and newsletters I hope!), I stumpled over one from April 2012 from Italy with some images to comment: "Do you think I over-edit my images?"
There is two viewpoints to have in mind on this.
One is that you are the only one who can decide what is a picture. Some like black and white, some like colors. Some like lots of colors. What is striking and intersting in photography is that you can give four persons the same camera and lens, put them in the same location, pointing the camera the same way ... And yet you will get four totally different images. That's how special your viewpoint as a photographer is.
Hence, asking others to tell you which photos are good photos ... We all have unique viewpoints, and if everybody asked everybody before deciding, we would all use Windows and all paintings would look like Mona Lisa. Thankfully Picasso never asked, hence we have a very unique style there.
My daughter Robin Isabella von Overgaard in Hamburg, October 31, 2012. Leica M Monochrom at 3200 ISO with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/1.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
It's tough, but it's your picture, so you are the only one who can make the right deciusion. In my view, the more distance there is between haters and lovers of your photos, the better you are at making daring decisions.
The other thing: For the actaul editing, what I do is that I do not use presets in Lightroom. One tend to get tired of presets and then find another. Too much effect.
What my aim is personally, is to have a camera sensor and a lens that captures reality as crisp, sharp, detailed, alive and as true as possible in terms of lines, colors and all. And then I apply my own editing to improve the look to be even more reality (or you migth say "alive").
Again, I apply my own viewpoint to it, my own style, my own look. I find that much simpler, and it makes you more the photographer in the sense that you have a unique viewpoint. So don't add others style or viewpoint to yours.
The ZOO in Hamburg, October 31, 2012. Leica M Monochrom at 3200 ISO with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/1.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
London Workshop
London, United Kingdom. October 2012.
Lee Lung-Nien in the London Workshop. Leica M Monochrom at 3200 ISO with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/1.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Sabine Kohler. Leica M Monochrom at 3200 ISO with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/1.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Thorsten von Overgaard. Leica M Monochrom at 3200 ISO with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/1.0.
London Workshop Leica M Monochrom with Leica 50mm Summicron-M f/2.0 II Rigid. © Thorsten Overgaard.
London Workshop Leica M Monochrom with Leica 50mm Summicron-M f/2.0 II Rigid. © Thorsten Overgaard.
London Workshop Leica M Monochrom with Leica 50mm Summicron-M f/2.0 II Rigid. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Matthias Frei. Leica M Monochrom at 3200 ISO with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/1.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
London Workshop. Leica M Monochrom with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/1.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
London. Leica M Monochrom with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M f/1.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Cambridge University
Cambridge University. October 2012.
Ernst Schlogelhofer and Matthias Frei. Leica M Monochrom with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Cambrdige University. Leica M Monochrom with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Cambrdige University. Leica M Monochrom with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Cambrdige University. Leica M Monochrom with Leica 50mm APO-Summicron-M ASPH f/2.0. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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