National Geographic Travelのインスタグラム(natgeotravel) - 12月15日 05時54分

Photo by @ChrisBickford. There are fewer monuments to the confluence of man and nature, land and sea, heaven and earth, architecture and geography, more enigmatic than Mont Saint-Michel. It appears as a Platonic form, a structure which has always existed in the collective imagination; even though its shape and function have transformed multiple times throughout the centuries. There is something so visually arresting about the place; and the impulse to see it firsthand, to experience the wonder of its tidal fluctuations, and to capture it in imagery for oneself, has fueled a booming tourist industry that helps to support and preserve the still-operating abbey at its topmost levels. This image was one of my earliest "true HDR" photos, meaning that I made it from a composite of exposures taken (on a tripod to lock down the framing) from very dark to fairly bright (keeping the aperture constant and lowering the shutter speed with each new exposure) in order to catch all the highlights and shadows without blowing out or crunching them. The result of images were blended together (as tastefully as possible) to show the wide dynamic range of the scene, which the human eye can see, but which present digital camera technology cannot. I needed one more stop of darkness to rein in the brightest highlights; but it was getting dark and the tide was coming in, and for better or for worse my concern for keeping my gear dry overrode my impulse to chimp through the exposures and see if I'd gone far enough in each direction. By the time I was done shooting, I was knee-deep in the marsh, and the sludge of the Baie du Mont St-Michel doesn't come off easily. I returned to my hotel with profuse "je suis tres desolé" apologies for the mud-bombs I was tracking through the hallway, and left a big tip for housecleaning the next morning. Having dealt with muddy photographers many times before, the staff took it all graciously. The innkeeper even smiled at me, a rare gesture in northern France. @ChrisBickford #montsaintmichel @NatGeoCreative #fromthearchives #canon

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