Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have looked a through the galleries a number of times. Very remarkable work. Truly a master of the medium. Michael Gardner Michael Gardner > On Dec 6, 2022, at 10:21 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> > wrote: > > ?Alan Magayne-Roshak posted a breathtaking two-person wedding portrait > last week. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/20000916_MR_Beth_Wedding_A_11.jpg.html > > I liked it so much that I spent a few hours going through his Portraits > folder: > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/ > > I was blown away by the quality of everything there. These are magnificent > portraits, every last one of them. Technically masterful as well as great > poses. > > So I started looking through his other albums. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > He has 2000 pictures overall in his LUG gallery, and I can't claim to have > studied all of them. But after a while, I started noticing a pattern. The > lighting in his pictures is almost always masterful. So much so that I > started wondering how he did it. It couldn't just be good luck or > fortunate circumstances. Well, of course, skill. The man is a truly gifted > photographer, and one of his gifts seems to be an ability and interest in > perfecting the lighting in his pictures. > > Curiosity about how he did it led me to start carefully reading the > captions in his "Gear" folder and realized that he is also a truly gifted > gear inventor (and obsessive collector). Besides having 9 light meters, he > also shows lots of devices that he has built or modified to help make > better photographs. > > To quote two well-known but fictitious residents of a town near Milwaukee, > Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, "We are not worthy." > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information