{"id":139593,"date":"2025-01-19T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landscapephotographymagazine.com\/?p=139593"},"modified":"2025-01-19T09:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T09:58:00","slug":"framed-rays-montreal-quebec-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landscapephotographymagazine.com\/19\/01\/2025\/framed-rays-montreal-quebec-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Framed Rays, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"
On January 9th, 2025, at night, I checked the weather forecasts for the coming days.<\/p>\n
The next day, the forecasts predicted a clear sky at sunrise, which was at 7:32 a.m.<\/p>\n
The usual question was, \u201cWhere should I go to capture the sunrise? \" I used the Photographers\u2019 Ephemeris and Google Maps applications. It was clear that I had to return to Bellerive Park, a 16-minute drive from home.<\/p>\n
In February 2024, doing the same planning, I captured an amazing Moon Star image<\/a> from this park.<\/p>\n So, on January 10th, half an hour before sunrise, I was at this park along the beautiful St-Laurence River. I reached the river shoreline. The scenery amazed me: a perfect blue sky with no clouds and a frosted river. It was clear in my mind that I would not perform a long exposure. I would use my magic Leica DG lens, which produces beautiful star effects when set at a very small aperture f\/22.<\/p>\n I set up my tripod, camera with the magic lens and cable release and waited for sunrise. After sunrise, I moved to many locations on the shoreline to find an interesting foreground element to be composed with the rising sun. You can see my tracks in the snow. I tried the icy river shoreline, pieces of ice blocks, and the trees on the right side of the scene as complementary elements. Suddenly. I saw this broken tree wrapped in the snow with a hole. I<\/p>\n To compose the image, I moved behind the tree. I used a 16mm focal length and an f\/22 aperture, and to achieve a perfect exposure (ETTR), I overexposed by 1.3 stops. I pressed the shutter at 07.55.<\/p>\n