Boston Skyline and Charles River Dragon Boats, Cloudy Sunrise over Back Bay and Harvard Bridge with Mirror Reflection from Cambridge MA USA

I have shot this place a handful of times in the past couple of years. I took a different approach on this one to get some sharper boats and cloud detail. The river was super calm and there was no wind, so it was optimal conditions to get a different take of this subject. I shot with a wide aperture to get a short exposure length, just enough to get the right amount of water blur. Probably due to my lens, there was absolutely no quality loss in sharpness at this wider aperture, and I think it might even look better than stopped down further. I took around 30 frames while the light was perfect, but it soon clouded over.

Canon 6d
16-35 f/2.8L II at 27
LEE Little Stopper (1.8 ND)
LEE 0.9 Hard GND
f/5.6, ISO 100, 5.4 sec

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