Foggy Days Part Three

This is the third of a series of posts dedicated to photography on foggy days.

The first two were taken on the same morning when early autumn sunshine was burning off the fog down by the river. The bird swooping out of the low growing tree was a complete surprise – I only noticed it when I started processing the images. If I’d seen it I would have waited until it was a bit further to the right…

It was a similar story with this photographer who was invisible on the day – they get everywhere! The spires in the distance in both shots are Wimborne Minster. The colour hasn’t been messed around with at all – these are straight shots from the RAW converter.

This one was taken on a chalk ridge on a freezing cold day. The tree was covered in ice and the branches were drooping under the weight. Walking back across the featureless downland to the car park I got completely lost in this murk and stumbled across the car completely by accident….

Finally the classic ‘straight line receding into the fog’ shot. Luckily I didn’t get lost on this trip.

As always these shots are taken for the book cover market, and all comments, critiques and questions are welcome.

Thanks for looking!

Shooting in Autumn Fog

Some days, photography is hard work. On others, the light and weather are truly magical and images present themselves so frequently you can hardly keep up.

One day last year I was lucky to have a free day when really heavy fog covered Dorset and Wiltshire. Photographs of foggy scenes sometimes seem a bit disappointing – there’s never as much fog in the shot as you saw (or at least percieved there to be) and the results aren’t quite what you wanted. However this day was very foggy, lit by some weak sunshine which made all the difference as it filtered through the gloom and gave an eerie diffuse light.

Heading (slowly) up onto the downland with a Canon 60D and the 15-85mm standard zoom, opportunities were everywhere. These are some of the best ones divided into two post processing categories. All shot in raw (as always) and converted with Canon software.