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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