Fog, fog, fog!

I’m going to try something slightly different with my blog.  Alongside wedding previews and the session availability, I am going to try doing photo break downs and different conditions/types of locations I like to shoot.  For my first attempt at this I give you: Fog.

It’s pretty much without any merit to pinpoint an exact time that I first really enjoyed fog or even the first time I tried to capture the mood of fog in a scene.  This cold and wet weather we’ve been experiencing in my area, as of late, has proved to create some fantastic fog; naturally, I’ve been yearning to shoot something in said fog.  I ran out with my tripod, camera, and phone (for a remote trigger) one foggy morning and shot a few photos around my neighborhood.  These aren’t exactly what I wanted to shoot but they were something and they’ll do for the sake of showing you guys what I mean.

The mood that fog  pervades can be a few things along one continuum.  It can be gloomy or mysterious, dark or stark bright and variants in between.  I was aiming around the gloomy and dark aspects.  For this you want to expose for the highlights in the photo, which can be very challenging as fog will throw off your camera’s metering so you sort of have to just take a few test shots to dial it in.  With the shot of my neighbors house I was very focused on composition and depth of field.  If this was crooked, it wouldn’t work.  If the house filled the frame, the fog and trees would lose all power.  And lastly, if the house was tac sharp and the trees were super blurry that wouldn’t work either, it’d be so distracting.

The self-portraits aren’t anything too special, I just wanted a person in the frame for the subject of a few.  I did try tilting my head upward more than anything so as to fill in the shadows around my eyes and mouth area.

I hope you all enjoyed my little blurb about this set, I’ll be back with a few other ideas I have in store such as: Snow and Tilt Shift Lens.

Thank you for reading,

Jake