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Subject: [Leica] When the right light isn't available, ask Alan Magayne-Roshak
From: mlgardner96 at mac.com (Michael Gardner)
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 23:40:32 -0500
References: <1c2232897e0dca271961a0aaaaa7b75a@reid.org>

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."
> 
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