Shooting on Foggy Days

Ian Grant

Ian Grant

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It seemed more appropriate to start a separate thread, I had posted two images both developed in Pyrocat HD one on a bright harsh sunny day around noon in Turkey, the other a very foggy/sea mist morning in Cornwall, here.

David M said:
Thank you. Interesting stuff. I like Ian’s foggy picture too, partly because I’ve never has any success with fog.
As an aside, I believe that our own dear RPS once rejected Edward Weston’s pictures of dunes because they lacked shadow detail. Those were the days!
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David mentions having no success shooting in fog, that reminds me of a morning nearly 30 years ago when I left my then girlfriend's house in Birmingham, it was a foggy day in January 1993, she was a photography lecturer and said you can't take photos in the "expletive" fog. I had a very successful day.

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I also shot the interior of this brick kiln, with my 65mm f8 Super Angulon. Images Agfa APX 100 and either replenished Xtol or more likely Rodinal.

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My Wista during the exposure, the above were all taken that same morning.

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Blue Hills, Cornwall, Autumn 2008. The woman and dog were not visible to the naked eye, 617 camera and 75mm f8 Super Angulon. Delta 100 Pyrocat HD.

Exposure and development were normal, it would be a mistake to increase development to N+1 or N+2. I would have been using a Spot meter. It's eerie photographing when it's foggy but definitely worthwhile.

Ian
 
What I’ve found tricky is getting a little bit of normal-ish contrast somewhere, no matter how small, to give the eye a key so that the image doesn’t seem simply very underdeveloped.
 
It's hard to show on the relatively small, low resolution, images we share online. In each of the images there are areas in the foreground of normal contrast, and that's very important. Aside from the interior image of the brick kilns all the images are part of exhibition sets and stand well alongside images made in quite different conditions.

Ian
 
Nice fog shots. Fog is always mysterious and emotional.
 
I enjoy misty days too, for the way they simplify the landscape around some of my favourite subjects - trees.
 
I to like misty shots, also like misty shots in the dark as well.
 
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