Over the next few month I’m going to experiment with creating video presentations showing how I do some things, hopefully it will improve my techniques and might help someone else. Today was first experimental post.
This is the second photo in this series, check out the first one here Salem Lake Foggy Sunrise #1. I used Photomatix 4 and CS5 to produce this photo. Let me know what you think.
I think image covers the subject. What do you think?
We took a short drive today to a new hike near the Yadkinville River in Pilot Mountain State park. We had to cross couple little creeks before we got to the river. At one of the crossings, the sunlight was pretty cool in the background trees and I had to take a picture. The first one I took was high above water and it didn’t get any water flow, not super good. I had to take camera lower to the water and position it so it would include the flow. The only problem was that it was fairly deep in the middle of the creek, maybe 4-5 inches and I didn’t want to get wet in 50F temperature.
But the art must be made, so I just put my camera out there in the middle of the creek, kind of positioned it in the right direction and pushed on the shutter button, all the time stretching my self and trying not to loose my balance.
Wiff took this photo of me going through this crazy exercise. I didn’t even know that she took this photo before we got back to the house.
Anyway, here is the result. I think it turned out pretty, pretty good.
Opportunities to take sunrise fog pictures are not too often. I think here in NC it mostly happens in the fall, when the ground or water bodies are still warm and air get chilled during the night. As sun shows up and temps get warmer the fog is rising and gives us wonderful views.
This year I managed to make one early morning trip to the lake and captured a few foggy sunrise photos. I kind of like them, so I’ll process them one by one over time and share it here. When I arrived at the lake, one of the first photos I took was with fishermen, sun was still not showing and the fog was thick but not super high. The following photo was taken probably about 30 minutes later, the sun was coming up and trying to break through the fog, but the fog was growing and was almost like white wall. Cool stuff. Let me know if you like the photo.
So I decided to get up early on Saturday and get some sunrise photos over the Salem Lake. This time of the year it is getting really foggy during morning hours and I wanted to see how its going to look. I wasn’t sure if they open the gates to little marina before sunrise, but to my surprise the gates were open and I saw about ten fishing boats leaving into the fog, one by one. I think they had some kind of fishing competition going on. Only if I could get there 5 minutes earlier, I thought, I would be able to get those boats in action. I still managed to get a few shots of the fishermen who decided to stay around marina, thanks guys.
