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Eternity Beach

My first photograph with a DSLR, ever...
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There came a point when I outstretched the reach and technical abilities of my Canon Ultracompact camera....
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My first photograph with a DSLR, ever...
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There came a point when I outstretched the reach and technical abilities of my Canon Ultracompact camera. Still, it took me quite a while to make the expensive leap into a professional grade camera. When I thought I found a deal I bought my first DSLR, a 5D Mk I. The very next morning I woke at 4 AM and went to Halona Beach Cove to capture long exposures in the pre-dawn dark. I started at twenty minutes per exposure and decreased as the light colored the horizon. For Eternity Beach I opened the shutter for five minutes, laid back and waited. When I brought the photo home... hundreds of dead pixels, a gash across the image, scores of dust spots! I was so disappointed. The camera I purchased was broken. Riddled with dead pixels, even a heavy scratch across the sensor. I returned the camera straight away and the cost of a new camera almost put my photography career on hold.
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Because of the camera, Eternity Beach was understandably wrought with challenges and flaws. I’ve come back to this image over and over for the past five years. I tweaked and retouched, I even threw away many versions and attempts to complete it. Even with the challenges, I must have used up a year’s worth of luck to have captured such an image on my very first foray into professional work. It was worth coming back to again and again. Finally, it’s finished and I am very proud of it.
Eternity Beach. Edition of 12.
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