Chateaubrun at the heart of the valley to wolves the castle of giants. Chateaubrun Castle is an impressive medieval fortress built on a promontory on the bank of the river Creuse in Cuzion, Indre, France. This Bronze Age castle is now being restored and is home to many monumental sculptures by Guy Baudat. Chateaubrun is not a showroom dedicated to the art market since his sculptures are not for sale. Many consider his unusual creations to be beyond the edges of good taste. Guy Baudat works outside the system in an artist’s semi-underground milieu beyond hype and against all odds.
The fortress is open to the public just one day a year during "Heritage Days" when the sculptor and potter presents his monumental works to the public. Guy has kindly given permission to those participating in my French photo workshops to visit and photograph his castle and his unique sculptures.

Image captured using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkIII camera and a Canon TS-E 17mm f/4 L lens. I used Live View focusing at 10x on the nearest sculpture. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/11, ISO 400 and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 16 exposures from 30 seconds all the way to 1/30th of a second in one stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving of the HDRI was all done in Photoshop CS6. The 32 bit HDRI TIFF file was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro. The final adjustments were then done back in Photoshop.