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Sophie, a Portrait @ 51/2 shot w/ Ricoh GR

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Paul Abbott

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I haven't had much time to shoot much with my new Ricoh GR but I did manage to get over to my brother's place today and got some photographs of my nieces.
This shot has only had a little more exposure applied to the shadows and highlights. No NR has been applied either...
As with all Ricoh cameras at high ISO settings the noise (I will call it grain), looks just beautiful and film-like and I love it. Although, this camera at 1600 and above has well controlled and acceptable noise levels...






Sophie, A Portrait @ 51/2 yrs - ISO 800/ F2.8/ 1/1500sec./ -1 exp. - Ricoh GR




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Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Paul Abbott said:
I haven't had much time to shoot much with my new Ricoh GR but I did manage to get over to my brother's place today and got some photographs of my nieces.
This shot has only had a little more exposure applied to the shadows and highlights. No NR has been applied either...
As with all Ricoh cameras at high ISO settings the noise (I will call it grain), looks just beautiful and film-like and I love it. Although, this camera at 1600 and above has well controlled and acceptable




Sophie, A Portrait @ 51/2 yrs - ISO 800/ F2.8/ 1/1500sec./ -1 exp. - Ricoh GR




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Paul,

I'm impressed by the creative angle. it really adds to the charm. Reminds me of you angles in architectural shots in London.

This is beautiful.

Did you do the conversion in camera or in PS. The GR is an amazingly capable camera in a tiny package. Congrats. I was thinking of fill length portraits of adults with this camera. It should do well.

Asher
 
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Paul Abbott

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Oh Asher, it is a surefire winner of a camera, I think it's a camera killer too! It is so quick and the AF is always so spot on with no hunting around, even in Macro mode, contrary to what others have said in reviews. They must have been shooting too close and beyond it's focusing range...idiots.

The conversion was done in PP, Asher...
 
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Paul Abbott

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...and this is her little sister, Chloe. Shot at ISO 6400, I used a weak setting of NR for this image.






Chloe, A Portrait @ 3yrs. - ISO 6400/ F2.8/ 1/500sec. - Ricoh GR​
 
Doug Kerr

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Paul,

What is the significance of the "Beware of this" "Warning" prefix here (and elsewhere on your work)?

Thanks.

Best regards,

Doug
 
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Paul Abbott

New member
Hahaha...I thought i'd use it literally to get some attention...
It's worked, because this is the first time you've ever commented on one of my threads. :)
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Paul Abbott said:
I haven't had much time to shoot much with my new Ricoh GR but I did manage to get over to my brother's place today and got some photographs of my nieces.
This shot has only had a little more exposure applied to the shadows and highlights. No NR has been applied either...
As with all Ricoh cameras at high ISO settings the noise (I will call it grain), looks just beautiful and film-like and I love it. Although, this camera at 1600 and above has well controlled and acceptable noise levels...






Sophie, A Portrait @ 51/2 yrs - ISO 800/ F2.8/ 1/1500sec./ -1 exp. - Ricoh GR




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Hi Paul!
Nice portrait! did you use DNG or in camera JPG ?

BTW welcome to the club!, I received my GR yesterday (I'm an official "Ricoh GR Ambassador" ; )
 
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Paul Abbott

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Oh that's great, Nicolas. I would never have thought of you owning one. :) These were RAW DNG files, I always shoot RAW...
Thanks for looking and commenting.

BTW, two nights ago I spotted a second hand (as new) GV-1 viewfinder on Ebay for £49. I snapped it up...money saved! :p
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Paul Abbott said:
Oh that's great, Nicolas. I would never have thought of you owning one. :) These were RAW DNG files, I always shoot RAW...
Thanks for looking and commenting.

BTW, two nights ago I spotted a second hand (as new) GV-1 viewfinder on Ebay for £49. I snapped it up...money saved! :p
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Ha! I like to make surprises! : )
Good catch for the viewfinder, I'm not really used to look to a screen for shooting (I never shoot tethered! lol!)

This is a vey special experience for me, I'll use the GR mainly for personal work/research.
I already found the way to have all settings manual, great on a compact camera!
 
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Paul Abbott

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The GV-1 is not electronically connected to the camera so there's no display at all, which is a shame. It's just a couple of 21mm and 28mm frames but at least it will serve me well in framing and gauging a scene instead of having to keep turning the camera on...:)
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Just discovered Chloe!

Paul Abbott said:
...and this is her little sister, Chloe. Shot at ISO 6400, I used a weak setting of NR for this image.
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Chloe, A Portrait @ 3yrs. - ISO 6400/ F2.8/ 1/500sec. - Ricoh GR​
Paul!

While your leg is getting better, I decided to revisit some of your earlier posts and discovered Chloe. What as cute thing! This is really fabulous shot just from Chloe having such a cute hide and seek "You found me!" look and also for the fact that it's done at ISO 6400!

Ger healed ASAP!

Asher
 
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