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

When I glimpsed Wallace's streetlight, I thought: that's Zeno's park and streetlight. One gets used to a certain photographer's vision and subjects, and stops really looking. (Lesson to myself. Apologies to Zeno and Wallace for my mixup.)
 
Thank you, Paul; Robert, for this time you´re excused;-) BTW, I like the black hat series very much. MAybe you will enjoy this series from the austrian photographer Willy Puchner
 
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Wallace, the street light shot is great. Love the dark contrast of the trees in the back.

Robert, I too enjoyed your black hat series. Very cool.

And of course Zeno, I am continually impressed with the wonderful textures and tones you produce in your images.
You'll have to share your processing secrets :D
 
No secrets:
I shoot Color, jpg, Mode P. I resize the pictures in PS and convert to BW in Silver Efex 2, sometimes using the filter options to optimize the tones. If the picture is still not as I want it, I play with the different controls of Silver Efex. Finally I use the unsharp mask in PS.
 
Thanks, Paul. I was in Fayetteville NC (home to Fort Bragg) around the holidays and there were a number of soldiers in fatigues downtown. Kind of a Keep the candle burning, boys idea. Except the light is out.
 
FalseDigital said:
Thanks Billie and Rhl! :D

I'm thinking about possibly making a small book of this series in the future. What do you guys think?
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Clarify a bit more what the series would include.

I think if it were solely architectural/texture/color fields, I'd be less enthusiastic than if it included more 'humanity' (like this one, and a few of the earlier shots a few posts back), or evidence of human presence--signs, graffiti, trash, shadows.... That's my bias or perhaps taste. More important is that you have conviction in your vision, and the selections are strong according to your lights, and there is some unifying element (formal, conceptual, associative, subject-drive) as well as some dynamic surprise.

In a general way, though, I think it's great that you're thinking of a book and soliciting feedback, and I would be happy--and imagine others of our little GRD-tribe here would, too--to offer thumbs up/down on a selection as a way of playing focus-group and providing critical support. RFF might not be the best place to audition book-selects, but there's Dropbox, private Flickr sets, etc.

For my part, I have a collection of GRD III work titled Shelf Lives, entirely focused on intimate, available-light portraits of animal/human figurines, dolls and puppets on the shelves of Goodwill, St Vinnie's, and similar second hand stores. I have exhibited 150 images from it as an iMac/LR slide show that in turn was part of a mixed media show (prints/computer-slideshows), and am considering creating a Blurb selection as well. So I might very well avail myself of the advice of this tribe, too, if anyone else thinks this is a good use of their critical skills....

Cheers, R
 
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I agree. All three are terrific. I'm a sucker for what the high contrast does with the fountains, especially the pools of turbid water beneath each jet. I'll have some funny GRD eye candy later from my eye exam. Stay tuned. I'm still dilating though...
 
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