Ricoh GR-D (I,II,III,IV): Post your photos!
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rhl-oregon
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ISO1600, 1/5 sec wide open
From a couple of nights at the gallery (I'm on the board, so play greeter but keep a camera in hand)
kuvvy
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rehview
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dogbunny
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rhl-oregon
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Looks like the answer to the riddle: how many GRD shooters does it take to make a lightbulb crazy?
Great effect with the swirls. What exposure?
rhl-oregon
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These look and feel very much like a documentary updating of Ellison's The Invisible Man. The way the flags shield but also dignify a small bit of privacy, the way the masks project a fixation not only with hoarding but with highly focused collecting meant to be noticed, and respected, carry a strong symbolic charge. Is this someone's improvised home and gallery, or an art installation about homelessness and illness, or? Not sure the distinction is important as long as the photo plausibly represents the former.
dogbunny
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Here in the market they sell really cheap lightbulbs that are uncoated and made of cheap glass. The swirls are just imperfections in the glass. I shot it at iso 400, 1/380, f1.9, -0.7. I'm not sure if this is a GR thing or my particular camera, but it tends to overexpose when I am shooting at night or dark places, so I pull it back a little to get more details in the bright areas.
petronius
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These pictures are cropped to a 40mm fov, because I shoot using a finder from a broken Rollei 35 now.
rehview
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I daren't give you any answers as it may spoil your reading.
dleyva2
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IEDEI
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LOVE my GRD3.
petronius
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Fantastic. I love this kind of picture!
dleyva2
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Thank you, Petronius.
rhl-oregon
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I apologize! Sometimes I get these fits of academic criticism, though I'm trying to articulate what it is about an image that intrigues me. The image is more interesting than any words about it, though. I'm glad you shared those 2, and I like them far better than anything I did write or might have written.
rhl-oregon
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These pictures are cropped to a 40mm fov, because I shoot using a finder from a broken Rollei 35 now.
Both wonderful. I am so used to that view of the street through a rainy car window after 20 years in Oregon...
rehview
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Oh, what a shame, my response was completely amicable. I could have made it so with emoticons but I hoped they weren't necessary. My mistake. I very much agree with Paul Graham's thinking: photographs should raise questions rather than answer them.
rhl-oregon
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Raise questions, yes, that's primary. And I do think it's ok for a viewer to try to answer them in such a forum as this. Still I'd rather have more of your images (and my own to be truthful) than risk cramping their appearance by appending a interpretation. I had a long career as a writing teacher, farewell to all that; here I prefer to be a lifelong student and a friend in the craft.
Filzkoeter
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What settings do you guys use? (GRD I users preferred)
jpg, B&W, +2 Contrast +1 Sharpness... but I'm blowing more highlights than I'd like to. Quite difficult step from film to a small sensored compact (+ first digital camera).
Maybe I should dial down the contrast, as my pictures get Alien Skin Exposure 4 treatment anyway.
Filzkoeter
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