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Foggy Winter Morning (Montreal) • PhotoTraces


I have a new routine this winter (thanks to lockdowns). Every morning, I wake up just before the sunrise and try to guestimate if the golden hour will be worth putting on winter clothes and go outside where it is -20C.

The morning I took the featured photo, I knew right away that sunrise would be amazing. The reason for that was thick fog with absolutely no wind.

Here, we rarely get fog due to constant strong winds coming from the Saint Lawrence river surrounding the Island of Montreal.

I got to appreciate and never miss foggy weather, which always offers unique photography opportunities.

This time, the fog lasted at least an hour after the sun appeared over the horizon. I had enough time to cover the big area and to take plenty of interesting photos.

Foggy Winter Morning (Montreal) 1

Shooting

First, I wanted to take care of exposure. I knew in advance that bright snow and fog would fool the camera’s metering system, and I could not rely on it. Instead, I used the histogram to expose the scene properly.

I pointed the camera toward the scene and locked the exposure. Next, I activated the histogram and used the exposure compensation to boos the exposure by 1 1/3 stops. The histogram helped me not to overexpose the shot.

Here is the histogram of the final shot. It is exposed heavily to the right.

Foggy Winter Morning (Montreal) 2

Second, I wanted to avoid the perspective distortion produced by ultra wide angle lenses.

I used the Fujinon 10-24mm f/4 lens. Instead of shooting at the wide end (10mm), I decided to use the long end of 24mm and create a wide-angle panorama.

I took 6 shots in total trying to map an entire scene. Because of advances in Lightroom panorama stitching capabilities, I knew I could do it handheld without a tripod.

Below are 6 images I took with the goal to stitch them into a panorama in Lightroom:



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