Fog 2

rowing lobsterman, Rockport, ME
rowing lobsterman, Rockport, ME

Ok, I seem to be on a roll, a weather roll. Here are some of my favorite fog photos…I couldn’t resist.

I love to photograph in the fog because fog wipes out the background replacing any annoying or distracting elements with a magical soft white gauze. Photographing in fog is fabulous. And it’s fun too!

Here is a bit of how-to: put your camera on matrix or evaluative metering (the setting that reads the entire viewfinder). That’s it. No need to worry about f-stop or depth of field because there isn’t any so use any f-stop you’d like. Focus on something, whatever you can. Everything is going to be out of focus anyway – you’re shooting in the fog! When you get the image on your computer you will have to lighten it up about a stop to make it look magical and not heavy but that’s it.

How easy it that? Go find some fog!

David Middleton is a professional outdoor photographer, teacher and writer. David has been a professional photographer for more than 30 years and has traveled extensively throughout all of the US and Canada and much of Central and South America, South and east Africa and Australia.

Recent Articles

Categories