I took this photograph on June 16th at 8:44pm in Montreal at La Coulée Grou Beach.
Montreal is a big city. However, I found many places free of visual distractions that were ideal for capturing sunrises and sunsets.
From experience, I know that a couple of minutes after sunset or before sunrise, the sky can have gorgeous colors in the surrounding area.
Before leaving home, the Photographer’s Ephemeris app confirmed that sunset would occur at 8:45pm. The weather forecast called for a few clouds!
To capture the scene, I wanted to include the full curve of the clouds.
At 16mm, my lens was unable to capture the entire scene. It was simply 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 exposure to capture the scene’s huge dynamic range. In post-processing, I created an HDR panorama in Lightroom.
Using the nine bracketed files, Lightroom created the final HDR panorama image.
