Ricoh GR-D (I,II,III,IV): Post your photos!

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Huesca, 2012
Dominique Leyva

http://visualhuesca.wordpress.com/
 
Lovely movement from shadows to highlights in the Sicilian portrait, Shadowbullet.

I find the fixed 28 compels me not only to get in close to live subjects--not natural for my habitual comfort zones--but also offers opportunities to make street portraits that give plenty of isolation and space around a subject. This translates for me into room for meditation for the viewer, without (so to speak) taking him by the neck and pushing him face-first into a confrontation. (I have to admit that the first example below does this better in the original than in the dimensions it takes on in RFF.)

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It likes getting closer, though, while preserving some context and separation of space:

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Here are a few of mine (finally got to work on a few files)

Lago di Como, Italy
toned with Adobe Raw


Playing with Color Efex Pro 2 (trial version)


Playing with Silver Efex Pro 2 (trial version)



Rising storm, taken from our balcony
2 shots merged, no PP to the sky (only slight boost to foreground)
 
GFEVAN,

Beautiful work. I love the feel of your image.

Are you handling your black and white conversions in camera or using some sort of post processing (Lightroom/Silverfast etc.).
 
I hated the first GRD3 I had, but that was more due to the place I was living, as it was not conducive at all to photography-- especially wide angle photography. The second GRD I had, I loved-- probably due to the fact that I was living in a large city that had a warm climate.

I just traded the GRD3 for a Canon S95 so I can record video while traveling, but I have a feeling I'll own another in the future:

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almost looks like film...
 
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