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Aperture Series: Fountain to Tower at Night
This series with focus at far distance has a large near-to-far range with moving water and long exposure—tough to do with focus stacking, though not impossible.
Fountain to tower
Adobe Camera Raw 9.8.0.692. View ACR settings.
Diffraction mitigating sharpening used for f/11.
The tower lights gave me fits: I wanted the diffraction star from the light in the cupola, but that light would go off for minutes at a time. I gave up waiting (light was fading fast) so f/8 and f/11 went dark there.
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