How to Take THE BEST FOG Photos! Photo shoot training; editing suggestions; and more Video Lecture | Capture like a Pro: Digital Photography Tutorial - Professional Skills

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bad weather doesn't mean you got to stay
inside in fact bad weather can produce
some of the best pictures out there
because you're gonna get something
unusual something that the other
photographers aren't gonna get because
they're all staying inside so one thing
we always do is have a fog plant fog
plan that's when you pick a location
that would be great for a foggy date
photo that way when it comes along you
have an excuse to go out and shoot and
get the photo that you want there's some
things to keep in mind when you're
shooting in the fog one of them is that
you're not gonna have a tack sharp photo
you're also not going to have an
extremely colorful photo the fog just
kind of dampens all of the colors so
they're not as vibrant so it's gonna be
more about form and lines and shape
maybe repeating patterns would look cool
something that fades off into the
background or an interesting subject
that otherwise has a really ugly
cluttered background the fog could make
that go away
technically it's pretty easy to shoot in
fog because you're not gonna get sharp
pictures and you don't need to worry
about depth of field because the
background is gonna be hidden anyway so
pretty much any camera including your
smartphone pretty much any lens is gonna
be fine the property of fog is that the
farther stuff away is the more it's just
going to become great so if you have a
subject that you want to be prominent
put it front and center get nice and
close to it and then let the background
fade away that fading away is going to
provide so much much depth to your
picture
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so I scoped this location out on a nice
day knowing that it would look good in
the fog how did I know that well look at
these beautiful long leading lines right
into the fog that's what I'm looking for
and I like the architectural elements
and that I can be under the bridge and
having these lines come right off of the
frame over my head also on a sunny day
the other side of the river is not
attractive in fact this entire area is
not attractive I don't imagine anyone
would come here on a nice day and think
it was a good place for photos there's
literal garbage everywhere but if you
can crop that out in your mind when
you're scouting your location you can
kind of imagine what things might look
like on a foggy day or even just drive
around on a foggy day looking the
compositional element I'm interested in
right now are these big pillars and you
can see one here one here and then I got
perfectly centered so that this one is
within this one I want these two leading
lines coming off the frame I'll just
take a picture and show you what I'm
talking about I can already hear you
guys asking what gear are you using I'm
using the a7r three and a 16 to 35
millimeter lens I went really wide angle
because of the subject matter that I'm
capturing but it's going to depend on
what you're taking photos of the
settings aren't really important you
just need to get your photo as sharp as
you can so I'm focusing on the nearest
pillar since those are not fading away
into the fog and those will be the
sharper element in the photo and then
making sure that whatever things I'm
interested in showing or not to blown
out but I imagine in posts I'm gonna be
like flowing out those white so that
this looks really surreal
another thing if you're taking pictures
if I were to just isolate these really
foggy parts I don't have a black point
and that kind of loses the intensity of
the fog
so I'm putting elements in the
foreground that are dark and close to me
to offset the balance so you want
something really bright you want to show
that effect of the fog but you want to
show something dark to show the contrast
of just how washed out the fog can be
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I'll take a close-up shot of the fog and
show you what I mean by having
everything in the frame being a little
too washed out if you want more
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