'Tintin' - L'île d'Or as Seen from Port du Poussaï
The île d'Or is a private island located at the east of the city of Saint-Raphaël in France, facing the Cap Dramont. This small island is composed of porphyry (russet rocks) and surmounted by a tower reminiscent of the Middle Ages said to have been the inspiration for The Black Island in Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin series. Viewed from the sea from the left side of the tower, a rock, commonly thought to resemble the profile of a gorilla, also recalls the comic books of Hergé.
The île d'Or is a "site classé" (a protected geographical formation), since the 17th march 1941.
I only really had 20 minutes at the location, so I had to work fast and surely didn't get the most from the location. The RAW file responded really well to post processing actually, so apart from some fiddly local editing, the whole image wasn't actually hard work. Boosted shadows, pulled down the sky using a colour range mask, added a very, very subtle split-tone to the highlights only not the shadows. Plus, the location itself did much of the work anyway! I was cursing the time of day I was there and the fact that I only had a CPL with me, but choosing to shoot outwards from the shadows gave the image a strong diagonal border of contrast, and preserved the saturated colours of the rocks. Geometrically there were better compositions available, but it would sacrifice a great deal as I didn't have the equipment to cope with the conditions.
'Tintin' - L'île d'Or as Seen from Port du Poussaï
The île d'Or is a private island located at the east of the city of Saint-Raphaël in France, facing the Cap Dramont. This small island is composed of porphyry (russet rocks) and surmounted by a tower reminiscent of the Middle Ages said to have been the inspiration for The Black Island in Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin series. Viewed from the sea from the left side of the tower, a rock, commonly thought to resemble the profile of a gorilla, also recalls the comic books of Hergé.
The île d'Or is a "site classé" (a protected geographical formation), since the 17th march 1941.
I only really had 20 minutes at the location, so I had to work fast and surely didn't get the most from the location. The RAW file responded really well to post processing actually, so apart from some fiddly local editing, the whole image wasn't actually hard work. Boosted shadows, pulled down the sky using a colour range mask, added a very, very subtle split-tone to the highlights only not the shadows. Plus, the location itself did much of the work anyway! I was cursing the time of day I was there and the fact that I only had a CPL with me, but choosing to shoot outwards from the shadows gave the image a strong diagonal border of contrast, and preserved the saturated colours of the rocks. Geometrically there were better compositions available, but it would sacrifice a great deal as I didn't have the equipment to cope with the conditions.