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First light

The pre dawn colours were already showing themselves reflecting beautifully over the flat calm sea as I set up my camera choosing to use the symmetry of the pie...
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The pre dawn colours were already showing themselves reflecting beautifully over the flat calm sea as I set up my camera choosing to use the symmetry of the pier as the basis of my composition.
I wanted to add swirling patterns along the pier with my pixelwhip but the light levels would've been much too high to record the full movement without overexposing the image so I swapped to the 'Live Composite' mode after calculating that I needed a 10 second exposure for the scene (including 3 stop ND filter).
All I had to do then was open the shutter, fire up my pixelwhip and leisurely add the sweeping pattern as I moved up the pier.
(Olympus EM-1 mk2 7-14mm f-2.8 pro 40secs (4x10secs Live composite exposures) f-6.3 @ 7mm NiSi ND8 (3 stop) + GND6 (2 stop) hard grad)
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