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[Godfrey]

I have the little pocketbook in the Photofile serie of Thames & Hudson. Actually a real nice serie and not expensive.
Bought it a few years ago and I was pleasently shocked by his work made relativly long ago. In a time that documentary photography ruled.

There is a wonderful exhibition right now here in Amsterdam of his work. Quiet a nice slide show if you click on!

Now that's just great ... I'm going to have to find some more of Saul Leiter's work ...

Thanks for posting the link!

 

[docmoore]

Godfrey,

This is the only one I could find in stock...worth the purchase.

http://www.amazon.com/Saul-Leiter-P...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323387698&sr=1-1

Bob

 

[docmoore]

I retract that ...

Here is another.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/3865211399/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

Bob

 

[docmoore]

GXR A12M VC 15 ALL

Bob

 

[docmoore]

A couple more

Bob

 

[woodmancy]

Really nice images, Bob

Keith

 

[docmoore]

Thanks Keith.:thumbs:

Bob

 

[Agnius]

Lots of nice images! Thank you for sharing!

There is a closeup I took with GXR-M & Leica Summarit 50mm.

 

[Godfrey]

Man Reading

Ricoh GXR-M + Nokton 40mm f/1.4
ISO 308 @ f/2 @ 1/60 second​

Thanks for looking. Comments always appreciated.

 

[woodmancy]

Love the color, composition and the "nearly square" format in this one, Godfrey.

Keith

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Good one Godfrey. He must be reading a good book!
I was wondering; did you shoot this hyperfocal from the hip?
It looks like you were quiet close to phothograph unnoticed.

Michiel

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Godfrey,

This is the only one I could find in stock...worth the purchase.

http://www.amazon.com/Saul-Leiter-P...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323387698&sr=1-1

Bob

That's the first one I bought. Really nice; well printed and not expensive.
Lot of those photobooks are way to big and heavy.
Makes yout coffeetable collapse

Michiel

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

One from the platform today.

Michiel

 

[Y.B.Hudson III]

t' throne...

Cooke Speed Panchro Ser. III 25mm @ T 2.2, 1/8000 sec. gxr m-mount...Hawk factory arri-m adapter. :watch:

 

[Godfrey]

Thanks Keith and Michiel!

Good one Godfrey. He must be reading a good book!
I was wondering; did you shoot this hyperfocal from the hip?
It looks like you were quiet close to phothograph unnoticed.

He was about a meter and a half away from me, I was sitting at the next table in a very small cafe. I use the LCD to focus on his face rather than the viewfinder as I could not get my eye to the EVF at the right position without making a rather disruptive movement. I was able to make two exposures without disturbing him. We chatted for a few minutes after that when he looked up from his book to rest his eyes.

With f/2 on the 40mm lens, I was pleased that the GXR was able to provide a focusing view (4x magnification and Mode 2 assist) that worked even at a distance from the LCD ... and the level display also helped quite a lot to keep it almost on plane where I wanted.

 

[woodmancy]

Michiel - your color palette is very interesting, can I ask how you are processing these?

Keith

One from the platform today.

Michiel

 

[Jorgen Udvang]

One of your best, Godfrey. I like this one a lot :thumbup:

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Thanks Keith and Michiel!
He was about a meter and a half away from me, I was sitting at the next table in a very small cafe. I use the LCD to focus on his face rather than the viewfinder as I could not get my eye to the EVF at the right position without making a rather disruptive movement. I was able to make two exposures without disturbing him. We chatted for a few minutes after that when he looked up from his book to rest his eyes.

With f/2 on the 40mm lens, I was pleased that the GXR was able to provide a focusing view (4x magnification and Mode 2 assist) that worked even at a distance from the LCD ... and the level display also helped quite a lot to keep it almost on plane where I wanted.

Just after posting I realized that you could have been sitting at another (lower) table.
Thank you for your elaborate (as always) explanation.

BTW :OT: Don't drink to much coffee in all those coffeeshops!

Michiel

 

[Michiel Schierbeek]

Michiel - your color palette is very interesting, can I ask how you are processing these?

Keith

In the first place, as you know I am always on the lookout for colours.

I made some screendumps of what I did with this photo, not very spectacular I suppose. White balans was on auto.
Because of the more or less complex situation of daylight and artificial light mix I had to work with the colour sliders to get especially the daylight situation right.
First screendump is the original with the settings I made contrast etc etc.

This is after I moved the Temperature and colour sliders temp. 4800 and colour + 22 based on my memory.

Usually with the Ricoh and good lenses I don't go higher as 33 with the contrast, but somehow with this one it needed more and I even add a little with the black slider.

Sharpening was set to 78 ( less then I usually did with the GH2 )
Beam 1,5
details 25
mask 33

Luminance 21

But every photo is different, of course.
But I don't mind to use the colour and temperature sliders.
Usually I also use local contrast till about around 20 and vividity too.
Saturasation I use sparingly. Can be to much rapidly.

That's about it.

Michiel

 

[woodmancy]

Thanks for that, Michiel. I have always been a bit "frightened" of the color temp sliders. I too have been using saturation much less and relying on vibrance. I am entranced by these street scenes of very strong color, so I will do some experimenting. You are right, you have find the color first, before you can process it.

Thanks again

Keith