Let's See Your Ricoh GR Photos

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nightfly said:
Really like colors of these and the photos on your website.

They have a nice slightly desaturated film-ish look like Portra.

Would you mind sharing some of your post processing technique?
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Thanks! I was indeed aiming at emulating Portra colours.
I'm using a custom Lightroom preset that I tweaked several times during the years to kinda resemble Portra and give that nice film-ish look.
I'm not excited about digital greens so what I do is to slightly desaturate them and turn the hue to a yellowish tint. There is also some other stuff going on. I could send it to you if you like, but as always, it doesn't work out-of-the-box, but ofter requires some adjustments here and there.
 
I’ve put this image up on the thread elsewhere, no doubt years ago. It is a vignetted crop of the original—which I have since developed more neutrally and uncropped. I repost it here because it has had about 3300 views in the RFF gallery, i.e., at least 3000 more views than any other image I’ve posted with any other camera.

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And this mystified me for a long while, until I realized that people want—maybe more than anything else, maybe without conscious comprehension—to be gazed at, steadily, unblinkingly, especially by other species. To have that interspecies visual communing. I wrote an extended visual/text essay on this in 2016, The Gaze and the Soul. (I’m currently exhibiting a version of it in several regional venues over a 4 month period, that’s why it is on my mind.) The point today, though, is this was made possible by the GR. I can’t imagine having done it with any other camera. It is a consolation in a sense to know that I could let go of all the other image machines and get the most out of this one alone; get images, that is, that go beyond conscious intent, ego-gratification, all that.
 
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