Re: overhead shot on beach/lighting in a tunnel

I thought I'd amplify what was said earlier, about an L-bracket because you sounded murky on how that was used. You can't just wrap a rope around the camera body and hope the lens will point straight down when it is hung from the rope. Though maybe the right kind of mesh *bag* could....

anyway, the bracket would connect to the the spot on the camera where the normal quick-release tripod plate would go. But that's off-center for this hanging-down job, and the camera would not hang lens-down, so the L-shaped plate leads along the bottom of the camera and up the back of it, giving you an attachment point at the back of the camera that's in a line thru the center of mass and hopefully, the lens. Where the eyebolt goes exactly on that plate to hit the balance point may be a bit of trial-and-error to find, this is something you put up with for cheap practical effects.