Anchored
by Rodney Campbell on Apr.17, 2023, under Photography
Anchored
This is one of those classic Instagramable spots
The standalone Louis Vuitton luxury boutique store is connected to the main shopping mall both underground and via a boardwalk. Behind the store is a wooden platform floating in the bay. This alternative perspective of the Marina Bay skyline can be captured, with the boardwalk and the anchor serving as foreground
With a six stop ND64 stacked with a CPL and a 3 stop soft grad you can get a nice long exposure (almost 80 seconds in this case)
As the platform you are shooting on is floating you can basically only do a long exposure here when there aren’t moving boats creating waves in the bay; and when there aren’t people moving about on the platform. In my case at 7:20AM I had the platform to myself
I was keen to shoot here a bit after sunset; alas the few times I was around here around that time the platform had many other people on it