My Rare Portrait Photoshoot with GR Digital with Wide Angle Lens

I rarely do portraits but somehow, I thought I wanted to give myself a chance in severe (low-light) conditions.
I was also let this high-end compact digital camera, GR Digital with 21mm equivalent wide angle lens, challenge at higher ISO setting.
What would you say?

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Chrispitality says:

Hirosan, I like the expression on her face. The tones are very soft - nice shot.

Chris
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

Thanks, Chris.

I never asked her anything for this photoshooting, simply asked her to have a seat in a comfortable chair.

It turned out quite acceptable even though this is taken at ISO800.
I would rather raise ISO settings than use flash, relying on natural lightings.

After all, it's all about the a nice person and a camera that I use!

By the way, a camera w/ wide-angled lens takes very interesting hotel photos!
Posted 42 months ago. ( permalink )

Chrispitality says:

Cool Hirosan & arigato. I actually am looking into a wide angle lense...I've got much to learn to take some decent Hotel images! =)
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

Wide angle lens is quite handy for landscapes and building photos. I get very interesting yet impressive results from it. On the other hand, it is hard to get a decent images when doing portraits.

I rarely get chances to stay at fancy (I mean, gorgeous and expensive) hotels, so this was the special occasion for a photoshoot!
Posted 41 months ago. ( permalink )

Terry Cioni says:

Nicely done. Good to see you are in Vancouver. I am back home as well and it looks like a great long weekend as well. Hope you are enjoying your visit. Let me know when we can get together.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Lumixa says:

Excellent portrait shot, hirosan! 1st of cos ure model looks very beautiful and such charming expression and lovely smile. The soft warm light wrapping ard her face is very beautiful! Central composition but think it just looks very nice! Thumbs upzz for u!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

Hello lc1fz1,

Thanks for your comment!
Since GR Digital has a relatively deep Depth of Field so the model has covered all the weakness of the camera and my technique, indeed!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Steve Crane says:

Nice portrait. The low noise at 800 is quite impressive for a compact. My Canon Powershot A540 has a lot more noise than that.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

> Steve

Thanks!
We have a couple of choices when we have no tripod or nothing to support the camera: low ISO and expect some blurry photos, or use higher ISO to get the decent photo but more noise and degraded colour and sharpness, and this camera sure has tuned differently than other cameras that can take photos at ISO 800 or higher.
Some complain GRD has more noise, but in my opinion, it is more usable than other digital camera manufacturars and leaves more colours and sharpness than FinePixes.
But for a compact camera with small CCD, it sure does a fair job and I am quite happy with it.
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

kaori6h says:

wonderful pic..!! Portraits get me emotional over a long period of time. landscapes no matter how stunting at first sight, you usually forget it soon. so i am going to remember this photo for a long time....and the flower on that hair...real nice..!!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

> kaori6h

Thank you for your time to take a look at this photo!
Actually, your comment made me very happy and I was delighted to hear someone feels like the way my friend and I did, too!

She suddenly asked to take a photo of herself as she put a flower on her hair, and GRD comes with wide angle lens and I had the conversion lens attached so I had to frame her in the middle.
My friend as well as I was happy with the photo and and this photo became her favourite one, too!
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

Briggate.com says:

This is a very beautiful photo.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

> Briggate.com

Well, sometimes ISO800 is not too bad...
I just think it is rare because it is rare for me to get such a result!
GR Digital comes with fairly fast lens in its class, I am happy I got this photo with her...
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

one42chrisp says:

Well this wonderful portrait is still in Explore, it comes up as #221 with the Greasemonkey script that I use in Firefox!
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

> one42chrisp
Since most photos of mine do not stay in Explore even after a brief showup, sometimes old ones come up then drop time to time... It seems that this one stays in explore for long time probably because not many people even try to shoot portrait photo with GR Digital with 21mm wide angle lens!
Certain photos come up again when I am posting the same series (like GR Digital, FinePix, MacBook, travel, gadgets and so on...)
But I still don't know why my gorillapod head photo is in explore :(

Heard about greasemonkey, but it also carries some security risks, as many online publications pointed out :/
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

Paul Jerry says:

Okay - I'll be the guy to say the obvious - she's gorgeous and her smile is what makes it.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

> Paul
It is obvious indeed, but true. This is the only photo approved by herself.
It was just about right timing and right situation, she did not hide from my camera that time so it was the perfect moment for her portrait!

If I stop taking silly candid photos but taking photos by seriously facing to the subject, I might do okay...
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Paul Jerry says:

I was surfing...

Maybe this is what we do (you especially) but digitally:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomography

The following are the company's 10 Rules of Lomography:

1. Take your LOMO everywhere you go and whenever you go.
2. Use it any time - day or night.
3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but a part of it.
4. Shoot from the hip.
5. Approach the objects of your lomographic desire as close as possible.
6. Don't think.
7. Be fast.
8. You don't have to know beforehand what you've captured on film.
9. You don't have to know afterwards, either.
10. Don't worry about the rules.
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Lumixa says:

i tend to do that often with my GRD. ^_^
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

> Paul
Pretty much true! Not many cameras that allow to do this, right?
Kodak V705, GR Digital and FinePix Z are the good ones for this practice... Thanks for reminding me of this :)

> Lumixa
Same here. That's why I love my GR Digital more than GX100 :)
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

:þ henry says:

hi hirosan, really an impressive pic you'd captured :) and i read all the comment here for one reason... should i get a GRD or GX as you own both (Wow!!) Am really not very sure about hi end compact :( can you help me? tksss ^_^
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

> (: henry
As many others classify GX100 a professional compact camera, it is for carefully framing and adjusting the settings and shoot whereas GRD is a quick weapon that allows to shoot quick. GX100 comes with zoom and better LCD screen and EVF, and wider lens whereas GRD has the GR lens, whch does give minimal distortion and great macro capability that not many lenses for SLRs offer.

I personally love GRD: It just suits my photography needs and I even thought getting rid of GX100, but I learned that GX100 allows to do more and it would be a good camera to learn about photography so I am keeping both cameras.
There are many other high-end compacts like PowerShot G7 (and G9 has announced recently) and P5000 from Nikon, but what makes GX100 unique is the wide angle lens and GRD unique is GR lens!
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

:þ henry says:

Thanks hisosan, for all these info...
i'll be taking a closer look of GRD & GX100 this weekend at a grand pc show in singapore :)
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

Xapa says:

I would say, teach me, new master, to be as good as you!
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

matthaeus_felder says:

nice looking person
Posted 26 months ago. ( permalink )

mdrn4u says:

Wavd what a beauti
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

cristian.sorega says:

Love the light and expression on her face. Very nice portrait.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

el maui / lefotodelmaui.it says:

/ D I A G O N A L M E N T E \
----{only diagonal photo}-----

La tua foto mi ha detto che vorrebbe entrare in questo gruppo, che fai l'accontenti :-)?
Your Photo Told Me Want To Join Our Pool... makes her happy ? :-)
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

giamarie says:

This is a terrific portrait. Please add this picture to the 6 Million People group. We are collecting pictures & portraits of 6 million different people as a memorial to all Holocaust victims. We need to collect a lot of people, so please invite your contacts and add other portraits you have taken.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

Thanks for invitaiton!
I will ask her whether it is okay to submit it to certain groups.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

scocasso says:

Okay okay, enough about your camera and how you took the photo!
Who is this beautiful woman??!!
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

> scocasso
She shows up in my photostream once in a while.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

triskell's says:

wow, beautiful!!!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

> triskell's
Thank you. You know the model is good looking so the photo turned out good :)
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

one42chrisp says:

Wow! Still at #35 in Explore!!!
Posted 15 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

> one42chrisp
Well, surprisingly.
Posted 14 months ago. ( permalink )

[SuperBem.SuperMara] [deleted] says:

Oi! Sou administrador de um grupo chamado CÉLÉBRITÉS (d'hier et d'aujourd'hui) e nós adoraríamos ter isto adicionado ao grupo!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

[SuperBem.SuperMara] [deleted] says:

Oi! Sou administrador de um grupo chamado ☼FLOR-DE-LIS☼ e nós adoraríamos ter isto adicionado ao grupo!
Posted 13 months ago. ( permalink )

DEVENDRA PAL says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called GREAT PORTRAITS, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )

nartes says:

I think this portrait is a major success, it really is a stunning picture.

would it be innapropriate of me to ask what shutter speed you used?
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

nartes
Not at all. 1/17, as the EXIF info says.
Though GRD does not come with vibration reduction of image stabilisation of the sort, it allows to take sharp pictures even at slower shutter speed with minimal blur, thanks to strange but unique GR lens.
Sometimes I look at numbers but I often go wild by setting ISO800 and try to hold the camera and myself steady while shooting.
I've got the shutter button spring replaced to the lighter one that helps reduce camera shake by not pressing it hard.
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Time and Hour says:

Really nice shot.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

hirosan says:

Time and Hour
Thank you very much!
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

journey33 says:

iso800 you should use the flash,because if you look at the picture is not sharp,he has too much noise,but if you like it this way then good luck:)
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

Lumixa says:

i personally felt the natural ambience is nice. noise? well...can always denoise in noise ninja.

i personally felt is a good shot
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

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My Rare Portrait Photoshoot with GR Digital with Wide Angle Lens

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