Why I love night photography, and why you should too (part v) with Ricoh GRii
The best time to write a post about night photography is night time. Bcos you at this exactly hours we belong to the same vibes as when we took these moody pictures.
Well, I did not do it. I was too busy at night, but want to finish the post today and yesterday selected and edited all the images I want to share with you. All the images of this post I photographed with Ricoh GRii small and lovely pocket monster that I purchased for the nice price at eBay one year ago and don’t remember a day when I left my house without it.
I bought it when the air was already vibrating by the loud rumors about the arriving GRiii. My idea was to try this for a lower price, already to have photos, expiration, to get used to it and with a time to sell it and to get this newcomer. Right now I left this idea aside and lost this interest to have the GRiii, but this will be the theme of one of my next posts.
And now i return to the main theme of this post. Night Photography. I ruined in love with this extremely interesting “genre” from my first days of using cameras. My first cameras were simple and dumb, but I always was very curious about how to continue my hobby also during the night hours. I wrote about this many time, in numerous posts, but all of them were about using by Canon 5dMKii with different fast lenses – 50mm and 35mm F/1.4. But Ricoh is much more limited – it’s lens is only F/2.8, but it’s wide-angle 28mm so, I can reduce my shutter speed to 1/25-60 without any problem just some motion will be more visible and blurred, but this doesn’t scare me – contrariwise, I really love to add some blurred motion and a life to the photographed night scenes.
This post contains a little bit more images, in contrast to most of my other posts, and I hope you will forgive me this photo flooding. As usual, I have too many plans and series to posts, so I’m really afraid to miss something. I will write the EXIF info of every below every image just to let you some additional info about my settings. I just forget to say that I used a built-in camera flash in some of the images below, so everything is written down to the info as said.
F-stop 2.8, shutter 1/125, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO3200
F-stop 2.8, shutter 1/100, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO800
F-stop 5.6, shutter 1/4, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO100, Flash enabled
F-stop 2.8, shutter 1/80, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO3200
F-stop 4.5, shutter 1/125, compensation +0.3, focal length 28mm, ISO400, Flash enebled
F-stop 2.8, shutter 1/2, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO800, Flash enebled
F-stop 2.8, shutter 1/125, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO1600
F-stop 6.3, shutter 1/60, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO3200
F-stop 3.5, shutter 1/80, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO3200
F-stop 3.5, shutter 1/4, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO100, Flash enabled
F-stop 3.5, shutter 1/4, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO100, Flash enabled
F-stop 4, shutter 1/80, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO800
F-stop 3.5, shutter 1/80, compensation +0.3, focal length 28mm, ISO3200
F-stop 3.5, shutter 1/60, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO3200
F-stop 3.5, shutter 1/80, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO1600
F-stop 3.5, shutter 1/80, compensation +1.0, focal length 28mm, ISO3200
F-stop 2.8, shutter 1/125, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO3200
F-stop 32.8, shutter 1/125, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO3200
F-stop 3.2, shutter 1/80, compensation +1.0, focal length 28mm, ISO3200
F-stop 2.8, shutter 1/30, compensation +0.0, focal length 28mm, ISO3200
Outstanding night shots and shots!
thank you Naomi 😉
So Interesting. and you got me keen to do some more of this again when the night draw in again.
Hi Paula ! thank you and happy to know that you will do this again ;-))
Very cool photographs, like always. Brothers in arms (GR II)
yes Daniel. we have to meet and to go together. thank you for taking a look 😉
inspiring photots Victor! I’m always impressed with what you can do with that Ricoh GRII, it’s great!
thank you Sam. i tried it in very different situations and for different phography genres as well. Its working great for everything maybe not for every kind of portraits 😉
The best pocket street camera. Love the raining photo with the lady in it Victor
Hey Zeno. I agree with you.. My other pocket analog shooter Ricoh GR1s is in the repair service now. All these small cameras one day are stopping working;-( Hope it’s possible to repair it.