MISSION:

Snapshot Voyager is about my own personal photography journey. I am always looking to try something new, inquisitive as to how it works, and to the end results I might achieve.

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Sunken Ship


One of the tours a tourist can do in Tobemory is the shipwreck tour.  A glass bottom boat takes you above several wrecks and you can look down on top of it.  This ship was called the ‘Sweepstakes’ and was a 119ft schooner built in Burlington, ON in 1867.  In 1885 it was damaged off nearby Cove Island, and then towed to Tobemory where it sank in the Big Tub Harbour in 20ft of water.  


Photographing it was a challenge.  There were a lot of people around the glass bottom viewing section on the boat (hence someone’s elbow), and shooting above created a lot of reflection and lack of contrast.  To correct this I cropped the shot of the glass bottom, and added a lot of contrast, together with taking out a lot of brightness in the above water shots.  It makes the shot look a little fake, but at least it pulls out the details of the wreck.





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