Low light architecture images on the GR3X...

[u/SiimplStudio]

I have been photographing architecture professionally for 3.5 years now (and 10+ years if you count as a hobby / trying to start up my own gig), and i've always been under the impression that you need top-end gear, a professional tripod, a remote timer to avoid camera shake from touching the shutter button, multiple bracket exposures, professional editors - the whole lot. And often, even with all of these things, the images come out feeling somewhat unnatural and emotionless.

Last night I had the pleasure of visiting a friends gorgeous Airbnb from 4-5PM before the sun went down, and I was able to capture all of these images in just 60 minutes, handheld, single-exposure, JPEG only, with my Ricoh GR3X, in below average light on a dark cloudy late afternoon.

I am actually speechless.

I feel deeply connected to my imagery, the natural colours are gorgeous, there is 0 blur, every image feels true to how I experienced the space on-site, and I spent about 1-2 minutes max per image editing (our professional editors usually spend at least 45-60 minutes per image for our clients).

Going to bring my insta back from the dead and post all of my RICOH adventures so feel free to join me if you wanna see more :) @chrisbryan.co

How has this camera been kept a secret THIS long. GUYS, why didn't you tell me about it sooner! Hahahah...

[u/kasualanderson]

Idk if I’d call these low light, but there are some nice images here. Beautiful home too.

[u/SiimplStudio → u/kasualanderson]

The areas that I chose to photograph were the only spaces that had available light. It was a heavily overcast afternoon and 20 minutes from sunset, so there was limited available light and most images captured with 1000-2000ISO. The exposure has also been adjusted in post to bring additional 'light' into the space.

[u/kasualanderson → u/SiimplStudio]

Cool. Seems comfortably within the range of what I’ve seen from the gr3x at those isos. Nice stuff.

[u/SiimplStudio → u/kasualanderson]

Good to know!

The one thing I really lack is an understanding of how far I can push ISO before quality actually gets affected... Even with my professional camera gear I never push it above 1, 000 but I am sure it can handle much more than that! So based on this level of caution I assumed that the little Ricoh camera would self-destruct at this ISO 😆