Behind the shot: Foggy
In this series I try to show you how I took some of my pictures in my portfolio. You will get to know the gear and settings I used, as well as a little back story of how and why the image was created.
Enough introduction - let's get it on!
Gear | Settings | |||
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Body: | Sony a7ii |
Shutter Speed: | 1/125 | |
Lens: | Sony 75-300 4.5-5.6 + LA-EA3 |
Aperture: | 20 | |
Flash: | None | Focal Length: | 160mm | |
Filter: | None | ISO: |
100 |
Scenes like this are the reason why I love landscape photography.
After days of sitting in the fog I finally found the time go get out and up the mountains. I hoped for an image like this so I packed my only telephoto lens I have - a cheap Sony SAL 75-300 4.5-5.6 with an LA-EA3 adapter.
When I arrived at the top I was greeted with a view you would call: WHITE! Oh how I loved the fog in that moment... Hiking up and getting exactly the view you DO NOT want.
But I was lucky. The fog and the view were exchanging their place every minute.
Just for your imagination: I couldn't create a panorama because after one or two images I had to wait for the fog to dissolve again. And even then, the exposure changed dramatically.
So I set up my tripod and pointed my camera roughly in the direction where I knew the valley would be. That is definitely not so easy when all you see is white! After a couple minutes the fog cleared enough for me to frame the shot and get my composition right.
I shot a couple of images in rapid succession because I wasn't sure if the fog would clear again. Unfortunately, my fears were right and I left back home again.
Nonetheless I got the shot I wanted and it is currently sitting as a 60x40cm print in its black frame.