- Anytime I go out in the morning and it's still dark out, I always get this really mysterious feeling.

There's been so many mornings where all of the conditions have come into place and the sky lights up with the most amazing colors.

(camera clicks) That's what excites me the most about photography, and I find myself continuing to chase those moments.

(slow soft music) My name is Ross Lippman.

I'm an arts and culture producer for Rhode Island PBS, and I'm going to show you how I photograph a sunrise.

The first step to photograph the sunrise is of course, to get up early.

The next step is to pick a location.

On this morning, I went to Point Judith Light.

I've had a lot of success here, especially late in the summer when it starts to get cool overnight.

With the temperatures dipping, what I was hoping we get is a little bit of sea mist in the air and we have that.

Once I'm on location, I need to come up with a composition.

When the sun is coming up, it's a challenge because everything is really dark because there isn't daylight yet, but the sky is really bright in lighting up.

And so it's really important to know the settings on your camera to make sure you're getting the right kind of photo.

(camera clicks) (soft guitar music) Once I have a picture that I like, I try to shoot and move.

(soft guitar music) (waves crashing) Point Judith has this really rocky and interesting shoreline and I find it to be a really cool area to play with long exposures on my camera.

And once you've found a new area and composition, I'm essentially repeating those steps again.

(camera clicks) (soft guitar music) For me, I want the picture to look just as much like how it felt for me when I was out there as it did actually look outside, and that's one of the great things about editing is you get to make all of those choices.

The photo is great, but it's the memory and the experience of being out that I find myself always coming back to.

Oh man, the sun's about to peek out over here.

Oh, this is gonna be, oh.

(laughs) Oh, that is so great.

I'm Ross Lippman and that's (camera clicking) how I photograph a sunrise.

(soft guitar music) (electricity arcing)