Sunday, January 13, 2013

Fog

I love fog, second only to snow; I can play in snow, which is why I love it more. But fog is great to walk in, and it's especially great to photograph in. It adds an air of mystery, a haunting quality, but most of all it adds an air of intimacy, drawing everything closer and eliminating everything outside the field of vision. So it was great to wake up this morning to be faced with a particularly thick fog on a day off so I could go walking in it with the camera. I put my laundry in the washing machine at the laundromat and then went walking down King St. with camera in hand. You can see the whole walk in its Picasa web album; meanwhile, here are a few of them to whet your appetite.





And I just can't help it; Kate Bush has a song called "The Fog" from her 1989 album The Sensual World that fits these photos in mood that I had to include it here.


[Technical note for those interested in that kind of thing - I shot all these in b&w at ISO 400, mostly 3.5ƒ exposure, and varying shutter speeds according to the lighting in each location. A little tweaking in Photoshop, including some offset coloring to adjust for the bluish tint they were coming up at after initial processing.]

Photos © 2013 by A. Roy Hilbinger

7 comments:

  1. I feel the same about fog...I love it!

    and your writing was especially descriptive and beautiful...

    It adds an air of mystery, a haunting quality, but most of all it adds an air of intimacy, drawing everything closer and eliminating everything outside...

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  2. I love photographing in the fog. As you said, it adds a sense of mystery. Makes me think of old gangster movies!

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  3. Fabulous. I want to steal that first one.

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  4. I do agree with you Roy, fog really does help to create memorable photographs. I dare say there is a Photoshop filter that will do the same thing, but give me the real stuff any day (as long as I don't have to drive in it)

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  5. great post, great pics. i too love fog and like you it is second to snow. speaking of which, our wonderful snow we had for a week plus has been gone for about a week, so i'm back to doing my snow dance.

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