Casual Portraiture with the GRD

[Lili]

Steph is a friend from the Bar world

 

[Streetshooter]

Nice image...

hate to say this, it goes against my beliefs...but...
classic composition......
shooter

 

[Lili]

Street, thank you!!! These are soft, 1/6sec at f2.4, ISO- 800 and I am not sure how many Jack Sours, still I feel they capture the mood of closing time well

Another

 

[Will]

Beautiful! (and I like the images as well )

 

[Joan]

Dreamy and poetic, Lili. Like 'em a lot.

 

[Lili]

Will, Joan,
Thanks so much.

 

[Oxide Blu]

I think you did better than me. Don't know how many times I have created a small-sensor "masterpiece" at some point well into a night of drinking, only to awaken the next day to discover a CF card full of pixel pollution.

And there is the never ending issue with IFF (inverse focus function), that pesky problem where a sober review of art created under the influence revels the reality of what looked sharp as a tack in-focus when, um, creating, now isn't in focus at all. How does that happen? Must be some kind of a phenomena where the eyeball focuses but the camera doesn't; or the camera focuses but the eyeball doesn't... I don't know, it's a mystery that only revels itself in the aftermath of bar photography.

Btw, I like the lights reflecting in the mirror and accenting your friend's forehead in the second pic. It adds a 60's 'mod' era feel to the image. Very nicely done. :thumbup:

 

[pollobarca]

Nice work Lili, First pic is "lets go":angel:

 

[Lili]

Paul, thanks so much
Oxide, ahhh here is where the Ricoh UI comes into its own, I used snap focus since the AF would not always locked. Of course if it had a true scale focus like the GRDII or Sigma DP-1 these would have been in better focus.
Assuming that that I could read the scale


Anyway off for a RAW shootout; GRD I versus Fuji S6000, the latter locked at 28mm efl.
We'll see how well the legendary 6mp F30/31 sensor does sans in-camera jpeg processing.

 

[Hypnohare]

Hi Lili,

I especially liked the first one as it seems to captures a warm mood. I have yet to learn how to take B&W photos with that kind of lighting. I just don't have the touch!

For some reason I can only shoot interior (B&W) shots if the lighting looks (to my eye) like a chiaroschuro image from a John Alton, A.S.C. film.

Excellent work!!

I'm curious, are you using the optical viewfinder??

 

[ecliffordsmith]

Hi Lili,

Very nice, you certainly got the effect you were after. The soft tones and dreamy atmosphere.

 

[Lili]

Hi Lili,

I especially liked the first one as it seems to captures a warm mood. I have yet to learn how to take B&W photos with that kind of lighting. I just don't have the touch!

For some reason I can only shoot interior (B&W) shots if the lighting looks (to my eye) like a chiaroschuro image from a John Alton, A.S.C. film.

Excellent work!!

I'm curious, are you using the optical viewfinder??

Thank you
I was using the LCD, only carrying the GRD in its case, no room for more
I used the toned "TE" with it set to Blue, with a minimum saturation, contrast med low.
It was using the Matrix (i think) metering, apeture preferred, snap focus, no exp compensation.
Lili

 

[Lili]

Hi Lili,

Very nice, you certainly got the effect you were after. The soft tones and dreamy atmosphere.

Thanks Ed

 

[Hypnohare]

Hi Lili:

Thanks for publishing your settings. That was very kind of you!

Levent

 

[nei1]

The first is a beautiful image Lilli,proof,if it was needed,that you dont have to spend a small fortune to get to the core of life.

 

[Lili]

Hi Lili:

Thanks for publishing your settings. That was very kind of you!

Levent

Levent
I do not see settings as proprietary secrets, like the camera they are simpy tools, a means to end.
It is the concept and result that matter

 

[Lili]

The first is a beautiful image Lilli,proof,if it was needed,that you dont have to spend a small fortune to get to the core of life.

Thank you
One of my favorite film cameras is a holga
It sits next to my hexar
talk about differing ends of the specturm