I didn't "wack" too much contrast to anything, they're all exactly as I shot them.
I can take closeups of anything and call it whatever I please.
I do own a Sony DSLR and a G25. I'm also a professional photographer.
I used the maximum ISO setting for a reason (to have excessive amounts of noise, or grain as it would have been in the film days)
I took these to have a feeling rather than a catalogue technical approach. I would have used a studio lighting set for that.