I took this photograph on April 28th at 5:42 am in Montreal, Plage de l’Est.
Montreal is a big city. However, I found many places free of visual distractions appropriate for capturing sunrises and sunsets.
Before leaving home, I checked the Photographer’s Ephemeris app to confirm whether the location was appropriate to capture the sunrise, which would occur at 5:46 am. The weather forecasts were good. This spot is a 17-minute drive from home.
Five minutes before sunrise, I was flabbergasted to see the sky full of colored curved clouds and their reflection on the river.
My 16mm wide-angle lens was unable to seize the whole scene. This scene was too large. Consequently, I opted to take three overlapping shots to create a panorama. Before pressing the shutter, I worried about the scene’s dynamic range. I didn’t hesitate to set my camera to bracket three shots with 2-stop increments between each shot to capture the scene’s huge dynamic range! In post-processing, I would do an HDR panorama image in Lightroom.
Using the bracketed files, Lightroom created the final HDR panorama file. With the efforts done in the past I really found my local sunrise paradise. A couple of days later, I went back to this location to capture the following.
