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Drowning in Stars

when I was setting up the camera, there was a nice foreground rock. I wanted to capture the widest possible view and at the same time emphasize the rock, so I h...
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when I was setting up the camera, there was a nice foreground rock. I wanted to capture the widest possible view and at the same time emphasize the rock, so I had set up my camera closer to the rock, which means, few feet into the water. but the water level rose up slowly. When the ambient light was perfect, the foreground rock has completely vanished under the water. The camera was on Interval timer shooting mode and it was continuously taking 30-sec exposures. (200 shots to be exact). The hardest thing was I couldn’t leave my camera on the tripod and sit somewhere and enjoy. I had to hold my tripod because the water level kept rising and a tide could knock my tripod and camera off anytime. It wasn’t fun standing in water which was keep rising and hold the tripod for one and half hours in the middle of the night. But, hayyyy… I Love this Shot
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