See the Photo Gallery from this shoot by clicking here I test the Ricoh GR III using the AE Highlight-Weighted mode while shooting an abandoned schoolhouse in rural Johnson County in Indiana. I use basic Program mode, along with the AE Highlight-Weighted mode, to keep the light from the windows blowing out. I had to make adjustments in Lightroom by pulling up the shadows, but the details and excellent sensor showed no deterioration in the details. While I wouldn't typically use the Ricoh GR III for this type of photography, it was a good test for the metering mode. I will be using this mode for my street photography, which is why I purchased this camera in February, before the lockdown, hopefully this summer when all goes back to normal! Whatever that is! See more videos by visiting my YouTube Channel
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I test the Ricoh GR III for Long Exposure and Night Photography while shooting a Healthcare Providers Thank You sign and light trails of cars and a semi in Greenwood, Indiana during the Covid shutdown. The Ricoh GR III performed great! The manual settings are easy to adjust and dial in as needed. Sharp image quality and colors. You can check out the video by clicking the image above, or going to my YouTube Channel or my Stealth Photographer website.
Read more about this adventure in my blog entry from last week. The City of Greenwood, Indiana erected this lighted sign on a walkway bridge over one of the main streets heading into town as a tribute to healthcare workers during the Corona-virus shutdown.
Instead of breaking out my DSLR with prime lenses as I normally would in this situation, I decided to take my newly purchased Ricoh GR III, attached to my tripod for long exposure photography. Under normal circumstances with my DSLR, focusing would have been achieved in manual mode, aided by the eyepiece viewfinder. But with the Ricoh GR III, while it does have manual focus capability, it's not easily accessible, especially in low light situations. However ... I read a blog post the other day where the author knocked the idea of shooting a landmark or other 'generic' location that a million other photographers have already shot. "Why would you want the same photo on your website that is on everyone else's website?" he asked. And went on to imply that if you didn't spend hours or days scouting a traditional location for a photo angle that no one else has ever come up with then somehow you're taking the easy way out. You're not a professional.
Well duh! No kidding! You do you, I'll shoot what I like, regardless of the thousands that have been there before me. They aren't me. Maybe I'll get a better shot, maybe not as good, but it'll be my shot. Why do I have to look at yours because you got there before me? Makes no sense at all. With one eye constantly moving to the window hoping for a glimpse of the delivery truck that will bring me my shiny new Ricoh GR III I purchased off Amazon, I'm finally beginning a new blog post, in anticipation of a new photography season approaching. It's the first of March, and the Indiana thaw is starting to creep it's way back to the Hoosier state! Temperatures have been hitting the low 50s for the first few days of the month, after a very mild winter for the lower half of Indiana. I only recall shuffling snow once in November, and maybe once in January, but even those were small 1 or 2" snowfalls. So nothing of any significance - thankfully! |
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