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Selected Excellence: Fair Face in Cafe

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The photos featured today were the works of DaDa'r from Taiwan. In her camera cabinet, there is the new acquisition: Ricoh GXR.

I have found the 16:9 mode of the GXR exceptionally impressive. As discussed eariler on, the 16:9 images took with the GXR boast an unspeakable Japanese-style aesthetic quality.

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These few photos taken by DaDa'r caught my attention because of this same aesthetic quality. The second thing is that the model looks really relaxed with a good natural expression on her fair face, giving the portraits the atmosphere just what one may feel in a cafe.

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I am really fond of the tone of the image below even though it is a bit blurred. The tone and the ignorant look of the model match the overall mood of the image which seemingly belongs to a certain historical time.

4478529870_8dc6e53b38_o (Medium)Responding to the question about her impression of the GXR, she says, " GXR is a handy piece of photographic tool to me. It produces images of great quality. To me, it is positioned as a tiny DSLR.

"But," she continues, "there are some unstable drawbacks about the camera. Maybe the newer module will improve in those areas." She gave no details of the drawbacks but the focusing speed could be one of the shortcomings she talked about.

4478541434_9abe303610_o (Medium) (Courtesy and copyright of DaDa'r)

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