On The Road with Thorsten Overgaard · September 2019
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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Los Angeles
California, USA. September 2019
Writing, editing, publishing and more.
My book Composition in Photography on the iPad Pro. Buy your copy here.
Matteo and Thorsten Working on new camera straps and other designs.
My office in the mornings, with a view to the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Leica 21mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4.
Vernissage of the Nancy Cartwright exhibition of paintings over the theme of "Know More sAbout Drugs", with many of her paintings on billboards throughout Los Angeles.
Vernissage of the Nancy Cartwright exhibition of paintings over the theme of "Know More sAbout Drugs", with many of her paintings on billboards throughout Los Angeles.
Vernissage of the Nancy Cartwright exhibition of paintings over the theme of "Know More sAbout Drugs", with many of her paintings on billboards throughout Los Angeles.
Vernissage of the Nancy Cartwright exhibition of paintings over the theme of "Know More sAbout Drugs", with many of her paintings on billboards throughout Los Angeles.
Leica M9 10th Anniversary
September 9, 2019
The Leica M9 was released exactly ten years ago today, the first full-frame Leica M camera. Read my 20 page review here.
 Daring Fireball on the Thorsten Overgaard Leica M9 camera review
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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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Emmys Awards 2019
Los Angeles, USA. September 22, 2019
Actress Sofia Milos. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 BC. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Designer Matteo Perin and actress Sofia Milos at the Emmys. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 BC. © Thorsten Overgaard.
New Thorsten Overgaard Camera Bags
The camera bags I designed with Matteo Perin has been out in a few samples for some time, including my own I have traveled with quite a bit to test and refine. Now it is available in a number of colors
How to get away with Street Photography
I released a new easy-going and hands-on video class series filmed in New York.
New 15" metal hood for MacBook Pro 15"
September 26, 2019
I've made a shade for the MacBook Pro 15" screen. Shipping starts today. It's made for travel, folds to a flat portable hood, snaps on with magnets. Slick and keeps your concentration on the screen without disturbing light and reflections.
The Laptop Shade foldable aluminium hood for the MacBook Pro 15" from Thorsten Overgaard snaps on with magnets automatically. Ships from today. © Thorsten Overgaard.
The Laptop Shade folds so it fits in a bag next tot he MacBook Pro. © Thorsten Overgaard.
The Laptop Shade increase your concentration on what's on the screen and keep curious eyes from what you're working on. © Thorsten Overgaard.
New York
Manhatten, New York, USA. September 25-30, 2019
I'm doing a workshop and photographing in New York.
Met this gentleman in Soho with an old-school message to the world. Write a letter on a typewriter. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 BC. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Enjoying the care-free life at Madison Square Park. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4 BC. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Grown men hanging out on street corners. That's how it's done. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
 Collins in JJ Hat Center on 5th Ave making a hat for one of the workshop students. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
James and Ann photographing Sridhar in the New York Workshop. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Bob in the New York Workshop. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Ann out and about in the Overgaard Workshop New York. That's how it's done. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Sridhar in the New York Workshop. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
James having a moment of reflection during lunch at the Overgaard Workshop New York. That's how it's done. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Paintings with the American Flag. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Kid wants to play chess, old man wants to play with his smartphone. Washington Park. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Summilux-M ASPH f/1.4. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Brooklyn. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Evenings in Brooklyn is latin music out through the windows and people outside their houses. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard.
Monday morning in New York. Leica M10-P with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95. © Thorsten Overgaard.
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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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"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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- The Photographer as Storyteller
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Composition in the Third Dimension.
- Picture Stories.
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- 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?
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- A Sense of Geometry.
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