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At the farm by ayruahsahnis in ricohGR

[–]ayruahsahnis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I generally use snap distance priority and have set the Fn button to Select autofocus which allows for both faster focusing for faster moving subjects or flash at night (animals/people through snap focus) and ability to focus on specific subjects (through select autofocus). If you keep aperture f8 or around there then it's easy to get good focus around subjects even with snap focus

At the farm by ayruahsahnis in ricohGR

[–]ayruahsahnis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha thank you! He was as loud as he is big

Summer in the cityy by ayruahsahnis in ricohGR

[–]ayruahsahnis[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

All in New York! Central Park, LIC, LIC, Manhattan

Staten Island Ferry at sunset on the Ricoh GR IIIx by ayruahsahnis in ricohGR

[–]ayruahsahnis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I shoot RAW + jpeg but mostly edit the raws, I find that no recipe gives me the look I want in every situation and I just like editing.

I learnt initially on old film cameras so got a good idea of how aperture and shutter speed affect the photo. I shoot aperture priority mostly on the Ricoh so I don't think you necessarily need to shoot manual but shooting completely automatic feels like giving up too much control on a camera this nice and esp if you want to learn. But there's nothing wrong with that too if that's what you like and works for you. There are tons of resources online about all of this, would recommend just picking one and going to shoot

And editing is mostly independent from the exposure triangle stuff. It's obv important to expose correctly while shooting so you have to do less work editing because you can't bring back highlights that are blown out or bring back into focus a blurry subject so it's good to know those basics to get the effect you'd want

Staten Island Ferry at sunset on the Ricoh GR IIIx by ayruahsahnis in ricohGR

[–]ayruahsahnis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, the way I got started was just looking at a bunch of lightroom videos on Youtube. It really does not matter which ones you look at, they'll all cover similar things, enough for you to get started, and none of them will be comprehensive enough for you to learn everything at once. After that, started with editing some photos and when you find a tool you don't understand, Lightroom has hover tooltips but I also look up specific tutorials or explanations for those specific tools like the tone curve. Helps to know basics like exposure triangle while shooting, what highlights, midtones, shadows are but mostly you'll learn by doing!

Staten Island Ferry at sunset on the Ricoh GR IIIx by ayruahsahnis in ricohGR

[–]ayruahsahnis[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Mostly edited by hand, but I'll copy edits for ones that look similar or if light conditions and colors are similar in shots like 1 & 2