In early June I posted a question on shooting in the fog and received some useful advice. I tried some of the ideas on a recent morning in the Smokies. As I will be going to the Rockies at the end of next week I would appreciate any advice on improving these shots so I can apply it on my next outing.

Thanks in advance for any advice---I do appreciate your thoughts.





Larry

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Assuming that you want the foggy feeling to show (and not shoot clear pictures despite the fog), the first things to do are watch the weather forecast, get up early and seek a (suitably) high viewpoint. For instance, the bottom of a valley may not be the ideal place to be in. As little as a few meters can make a difference. The weather forecast tells you the direction it will blow. Fog is heavier than dry air, which is why it gets thicker on the wind side of mountains, islands or forest edges.

Sometimes you just can't capture what you experienced into your pictures. PP can help. If you increase clarity and contrast in the less foggy areas of the picture, it makes the foggy areas look foggier still.

Bracket exposures and/or resort to HDR to capture any subtle variations in the fog, to show individual clouds of fog, as opposed to a featureless mass.

Regards, Antero

>Sometimes you just can't capture what you experienced into
>your pictures. PP can help. If you increase clarity and
>contrast in the less foggy areas of the picture, it makes the
>foggy areas look foggier still.

To build on Antero's comments, you might also try decreasing the clarity in the foggy areas. that should also help these areas look foggier.

Karen

The images are overexposed. Try Spot metering on the brightest areas instead of Matrix on the whole frame.

See these examples, with other exposures simulated via PhotoShop

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Both of these look pretty good. There is only so much you can do with the scenes.

In the first one, the fog is a little flat. And the scene does not have much of a background behind the tree. I like the way you have kept the tree nice and sharp and provided a thin line of the mountain ridge. The color temperature looked a little cool to me - especially the tree. I know the image was captured with some nice warm morning light, so you might look to warm it up a little bit. I made a quick edit. I used Color Efex Tonal Contrast to increase the texture and definition of the tree a little. I also added a little sharpening.


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