More from Charlevoix

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This is going to start sounding like a travelogue/tourist brochure (maybe we should have a forum devoted to travel pics?), but here are a few more from Charlevoix.

This is a boat parked on some grass just above the high tide line. Shot just after dawn. Some lomo type effects applied in post-processing. There are a surprising number of these boats in similar perches.



Here are two shots of a fishing weir in a beautiful village called Ste. Irenee. You come down out of the mountains onto this narrow strip of beach (complete with weir), and there is this casse-croute (Quebecois snack bar) right across some railway tracks from a narrow beach. I waded to get some of these weir shots -- extremely cold water. Channel mixer conversion for the BW (mostly red with some green); polarizer gave the contrast in the sky.





There are a bunch of these processional chapels in the Charlevoix, built apparently to shelter adherents who tire during religious processions. This one couldn't have been more than about 2.5 m x 2 m inside. Taken just after dawn (sun behind church).




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I think it is cheating to use a reply to overcome the four-image constraint, but I have one more.

This is a windmill on the Isle aux Coudres. It still works, improbably enough. Apparently the water supply on the island was unreliable so they had windmills built to grind flour; I have to say I had no idea we had windmills in this country. The roof assembly rotates so that you can face the sails into the wind, and the miller would carefully trim the sails in the appropriate amount of canvas -- all news to me, though perhaps not to the European members of the forum.



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[Isilwen]

Wow - that is a beautiful area. The water in the second and third images is stunning. I think the B&W is my favorite. It is striking!

[peeperita]

i've been wondering where ya went.....these are lovely....

thanks for sharing....now, forgive my ignorance.....but, what are lomo effects?...

peeper

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Sorry peeper -- there is a series of old film cameras made by Russian camera manufacturer Lomo, which tended to create weird contrast and light effects. People who bought Lomos also would frequently cross-process their films to get further weird colour shifts.

Creative people have tried to duplicate the Lomo look digitally. Since the Lomo look involves a degree of randomness and is a bit hard to pin down, I don't know how successful these efforts are at duplicating Lomo, but they do create a distinctive look. They usually involve a heavy and blunt boost to both contrast and saturation, and maybe a bit of oversharpening. For the boat pic I boosted contrast quite a bit to get the dark shadows, and the contrast difference between the two sides of the boat. I also played with colour a bit to get a strong yellow-orange cast on the grass. Lomos also involve vignetting often, but I didn't add one since I already had that dark stripe upper left which I think is from my polarizing filter.

There was a good piece on Lomo effects on the DPS blog (here), and if you search through Critique looking for threads with Lomo in the title you will see various people's efforts.

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[praesentire]

Absolutely fantastic job on the Lomo effects! These shots are so eye-catching, my eyes feel like they're being pulled out of their sockets!
The second one is my fav.

[Fusion08]

Very striking moody pictures, I like them a lot. Ian

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Praesentire -- Sorry about your eyese. I think the second is my tops too -- you should consider Charlevoix for a holiday.

Ian -- thanks. Coming from a guy who is setting the bar very high for landscape photography, that is high praise.

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