Jeremiah Tolbert

It’s very dry in the part of the coun­try, to the point where, at high alti­tudes, you don’t find your­self sweat­ing much because it evap­o­rates too quickly. This means one of my favorite weather phe­nom­ena, fog, rarely comes along. But while up in Rocky Mountain National Park, I found a whole cloud bank set­tled into a val­ley, which gave me a great oppor­tu­nity to prac­tice shoot­ing in fog.

Fog makes for an inter­est­ing pho­to­graph but I found there’s no point in shoot­ing in it unless you’re shoot­ing directly at a light source. Backlit fog just looks blurry. If you can take pic­tures of fog from a dis­tance obscur­ing some­thing like say, the Golden Gate Bridge, that’s pretty cool too, but for this round of exper­i­men­ta­tion, the only good shots I got were of sun­beams com­ing through tree and selec­tively illu­mi­nat­ing the fog, like this one.

A note to other new­bie photographers–I view his­togram clip­ping as the kiss of death for a photo and oftne delete it on site–but you just have to live with it when shoot­ing basi­cally right at the sun in an over­cast situation.

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