Directional Corn
28Aug08
I am trying to relearn the Ricoh GX200. The GX100 and B&W felt so natural, and the GX200 is unfortunately not quite the same camera. It seems like a new journey.
A perspective view on a corn field.
Idinkweg, Sinderen, Gelderland, the Netherlands.
August 14, 2008
Ricoh GX200, f4.6, 1/620 sec, ISO 100, -0.3 EV
Filed under: 2008, Flickr, Photography | 10 Comments
Tags: Achterhoek, corn field, Flickr, Netherlands, Photography, Ricoh GX200
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I like how you used the colors here, it is different from your pictures with the GX100 but still great and one can still recognize your style.
I am glad you still recognize my style. When going to color it is something I am concerned about.
Hi Wouter
This is a really striking picture. Fantastic effect.
Sudeep
I went through the same concern when I contemplated getting a GRD II in addition to my workhorse GRD. I love B&W output of the GRD. In the end, just last month, I picked up a second GRD before it becomes completely unavailable. But I agree with Cristian, I can still recognize your style and the use of color in this particular image is appealing.
Many thanks Sudeep and James.
A nice picture, but I think it’d work better in B&W. I can recognize your style, like the others, but think that this low saturation almost hand-coloured effect works less well than either full colour or black and white.
But I’ve been admiring your photographs for a while! You inspired me to get a GX100 about six months ago, which I have loved. Today I said good-bye to it via ebay. Perhaps that’s why I’m commenting on your website! I have been seduced by an LX3 which arrives soon. I hope that I do not find it hard to get used to, like you say you are feeling with the GX200
Thanks David. I hope you didn’t sell the GX100 because I had problems with it. It is still a fantastic camera. I like it more than the GX200.
Normally I would pick the B&W version too, but with the files of the GX200 it is so much harder to get the same look as with the GX100 files. I have never be a fan of full color photographs, especially as the differ so much from my personal style. I am still working on a B&W version it needs so much more work. I might be using Lightzone again for my B&W work with the GX200 files, or a lot masking in Photoshop.
Wouter
This photo is a lovely experiment. A suggestion (despite my being a dedicated b/w person): Maybe the search for a work flow to fit the new camera will lead you to discover your own color palette, a color equivalent of your b/w work, one that deviates from standard fare. In fact, I see the beginnings of this in the green in the present photo. For possible inspiration, take a look at these 1930s shots by NL color film pioneer Bernard Eilers: http://www.bubkes.org/2006/06/16#a151
HI Wouter
Never fear; I didn’t sell the 100 for that reason. It was more that while I agree it was fantastic for black-and-white, since the luminance noise looked grainy in a way that was terrific, I didn’t like the colour look (which is about 40% of my work); after removing the magenta cast (that was probably the profile in Adobe Lightroom) it was a little under-saturated for my taste. Increasing the saturation in PP didn’t help either: it just got quite unnatural. Also the slight limitation in dynamic range meant that shadows would often look bad, and I was forced to darken them down on the grounds that no detail was better than muddy detail, with banded noise above about 200 ISO).
I’m hoping the LX3 will have more DR and be good at 400; people say that it has about a stop less noise than the G9, which in turn had maybe two-thirds of a stop less than the GX100.
But one thing I’ll miss is the ergonomics of the GX100; I don’t think any digital compact has ever come close to the ’serious’ Richohs. It’s just how a compact ought to work. Still, the LX is a bit better than the old LX in this regard.
Look forward to it…
Subtle and different.