Sunrise in the Snow

Sunrise in the Snow

I was up early this morning and could see we would be in for a decent sunrise so I donned just about all the clothes I own to keep warm and set off to a nearby field. I got there in good time but the shot I originally planned wasn’t going to work, it was more of a sun set location so I went over a small bank so the land would be lit up as soon as the sun peaked over the hills. As a side note, I also found quite a substantial bee farm, about 20 hives, luckily with it being -10 degrees there were none about. I used the tracks and the fence/hedge for foreground intrest and as leading lines towards the dramatic sunrise. I had my 3 stop ND grad on to balance the exposure and thats about it. I had underexposed the shot slightly to get the saturated colours, generally you should overexpose snow scenes to get the snow white as opposed to grey but in this case the sky was the main subject and I knew I could bring up the land a little with the graduated filter in Lightroom. This shot was taken at ISO100, f/16, 1/3 sec at 16mm.