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10/08/2006 05:27:29 AM · #1 |
Have you ever photographed in a dense fog? It can be extremely exciting, especially when you are totally lost in the middle of the lake.
It was friday night a few weeks ago. I was photographing this beauty =)
...Anyway I noticed that temperature was dropping quite fast, and there was already fog forming. So I decided to wake before sunrise, and take my camera and the old rowing boat on lake.
It was cold morning. I jumped to the boat and started to row. Soon the visibility was close to zero and my only guiding light was moon at the sky.
It was strange moment... totally peaceful and an feeling that I was alone in the whole world.
Here's a few shots:
  
any experiences/pics?
Message edited by author 2006-10-08 05:31:25. |
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10/08/2006 05:55:10 AM · #2 |
From the same place, about a year apart
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10/08/2006 06:43:23 AM · #3 |
Great shots Ed.
I want to try again someday soon.
It's hard to get sharp focus. Subject has to be quite close, else it's lost in the fog. Like I said.. I have to try again with better luck. |
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10/08/2006 07:08:14 AM · #4 |
I have various others in my waterlands section of my portfolio, if you want to see some other approaches.
I found it quite an intriguing challenge technically - I'd actually gone out hoping to get the sunlight through rising mist type effort (there is one there somewhere), but the fog was too thich for that early on - and I was too late the first day.
There are two approaches - having something foreground with detail, to balance the less defined areas of image, or to be working almost completely in an impressionistic style, where your concern is for great lumps of vagues forms. The first of the two I posted here is a happy combination of both, down to an equally happy breath of air thinning the fog around the left-hand tree.
I like the second one you posted though, with the trees. I has both that vagueness and enough detail for the eye. The tricky bit really, I found, was finding where one should stop the brightening of the air, as far as processing is concerned - to keep the greyness, but not just go too dark and dull. |
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10/08/2006 07:23:23 AM · #5 |
This foggy shot was my Pastels Challenge submission
Steve
Message edited by author 2006-10-08 07:24:52. |
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10/08/2006 11:01:05 AM · #6 |
 This was shot about a block from the beach. I could hear the fog horns in the distance and water dripping off of the trees, but that was all.
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10/08/2006 11:28:02 AM · #7 |
Fog shots are great. Expose for the fog and then don't destroy it later in PP by too heavy a hand with levels/curves.
These two were both shot in northern Michigan. I stood there as a wall of fog literally rolled in over the harbor. I got about 5 shots off before me and my camera were covered in water droplets.
 
The pier one I wanted to enter for Leading Lines but of course with basic editing, I'd have been forced to submit it speckled with water droplets as they couldn't have been cloned out.
This one was taken while sitting in traffic on the drive to work.
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10/08/2006 11:45:51 AM · #8 |
We get a lot of fog in eastern Newfoundland (it's one of the foggiest places in the world). I used to hate foggy days, I'd say oh it's foggy, I can't take pictures today. But lately I've been going out in the fog to take pictures. I just uploaded several into a new fog gallery, here. Here are a couple of my favourites.
 
 
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10/08/2006 11:46:15 AM · #9 |
We get plenty of fog in San Francisco, mostly making for subdued images. But this combination photo taken in Sonoma County along the coast was really bright. I found the tree along the foggy highway when stopped for construction delays; I found the foggy sunset where I stayed that evening.
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10/08/2006 12:39:42 PM · #10 |
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10/08/2006 12:49:04 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by routerguy666:
Fog shots are great. Expose for the fog and then don't destroy it later in PP by too heavy a hand with levels/curves.
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Thanks for the tip. What about white balance? Fog shot tend to have blue cast.
Have anyone tried manual white balance? |
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10/08/2006 12:52:13 PM · #12 |
These are two sort of fog shots. Our zoo has a really fine mister that puts off this awesome fog. We always happen to be walking through it when the light is right.
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10/08/2006 01:31:10 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by mtpp:
Have you ever photographed in a dense fog? It can be extremely exciting, especially when you are totally lost in the middle of the lake.
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Nice work Mika!
Here's one of mine...
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10/08/2006 07:14:44 PM · #14 |
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10/08/2006 07:26:34 PM · #15 |
My only two:
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10/08/2006 07:31:47 PM · #16 |
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10/08/2006 07:33:14 PM · #17 |
When I went to Katoomba the other week it was nothing but fog and rain it was freezing!!!
 Resizes suck lol
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