As promised a photograph of the Old Town in Dubrovnik today, and where yesterday’s shot was taken from the walls looking out, today’s is looking in. I mentioned yesterday that the view (and the photographic opportunities) got better as you went around the walls – the only permitted route is go anti-clockwise – and indeed this shot was taken from the highest point, near the end of the lap of the town.
The vantage point is roughly on the opposite side of the town to that for yesterday’s shot, and it was a crowded spot with many tourists like me looking to take a photograph. It was probably taken an hour after the image I posted yesterday (having had a refreshment break half way around in the meantime) and so the sun is a little bit lower in the sky. You can tell from the buildings that the sun is at camera right, and approaching the point at where it was to set. That lower angle gives better lighting for this type of architectural image, and helps give the buildings a 3D feel in this 2D image.
In the background of the shot you see the island of Lokrum, which was to be our destination for two day trips, mainly to get away from the cruise ship tours that cluttered the streets of the old town, which you can see are narrow.
This photograph is again from a single exposure, but with quite a bit of processing in Aperture on the RAW file to bring out the detail in the rooftops. What’s most interesting about the rooftops is that the newer orange tiles show where the town was shelled during the war of the 1990s, while only the older light brown tiles indicate buildings that were unharmed, which you can see here are very clearly in the minority. All the more amazing that the town was so successfully and beautifully restored in the years since.
The following day we headed out to that island of Lokrum, and on the way back I captured one of my favourite shots of the trip. That will be the subject for tomorrow’s post so stay tuned!
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