Paimpont Abbey seen from the lake has featured on my project thirty times to date... but never from this PoV. This is looking north down the length of the lake with the Abbey in the distance. I had a dead Coypu at my feet (road-kill) as I was taking this shot... but I decided to spare you a picture of that!
This image is SOOC and is part of my ongoing OCOLOY project - you can read more about it in my post for 1 January and in my profile. I'm also tagging this for B&W February.
Different subject, but have you noticed how well Adobe Camra Raw/Lightroom converts the raw image (demosaicing) from the Fujifilm X-Trans sensor? Discussing with DxOMark why they don't have results for Fujifilm cameras, I learned a little about the non-Bayer filter array that makes up the X-Trans sensor, and that DxOMark's test bed doesn't support non-Bayer type arrays. I'm wondering about the performance of raw converters in general...
@frankhymus Interesting... one of the complaints of Fuji shooters has been that Adobe software doesn't deal well with Fuji raw files - lots of comments about weird artefacts in the reproduction of foliage. Maybe Fuji and Adobe have been collaborating on this but, personally, I'm quite happy with raw file conversions... not that I'm doing many at the moment!
Those reflections are wonderful Richard. On another note I would have loved to see the coypu. Not remembering what one was I of course had to google it and then realised I had heard of them but never seen one - a live one of course would be preferable :)
I like the reflection. It's interesting that the left is so dark and solid, and the right so light and delicate. If you weren't going SOOC, I'd recommend cropping in from the left and up from the bottom.
@taffy I took about 8 different views of this in an attempt to convey exactly that contrast. More than half the perimiter of the lake is thickly forested as it has been for almost 2000 years. The remaining perimiter was cleared bit by bit to enable first the development of the Abbey and, a 1000 years later, the development of the village. Paimpont comes from the Breton Penpont which means head of the bridge and it was the point where the natural marshes and waterways could be crossed. There is in fact detail in the left-hand side (I exposed carefully to ensure that) but it got lost in 365s conversion process.
Different subject, but have you noticed how well Adobe Camra Raw/Lightroom converts the raw image (demosaicing) from the Fujifilm X-Trans sensor? Discussing with DxOMark why they don't have results for Fujifilm cameras, I learned a little about the non-Bayer filter array that makes up the X-Trans sensor, and that DxOMark's test bed doesn't support non-Bayer type arrays. I'm wondering about the performance of raw converters in general...
Richard.
The reflections are beautiful , the atmosphere is soothing, beautiful and great depth perspective. Yet another facet of our beautiful abbey. FAV