[Leica] When the right light isn't available, ask Alan Magayne-Roshak

[Michael Gardner]

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:
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> Alan Magayne-Roshak posted a breathtaking two-person wedding portrait last week.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/20000916_MR_Beth_Wedding_A_11.jpg.html
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> I liked it so much that I spent a few hours going through his Portraits folder:
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Portraits/
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> 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.
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> So I started looking through his other albums.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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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