How to take good photos in foggy days?

Fog often appears in the environment with high humidity and large air temperature difference, and generally appears after sunset in spring and autumn. Fog can last until the morning, until the sun rises and brings temperature to the earth. Fog may be found near the water surface in the lowlands. The surface of water is usually hotter than the surrounding air, which helps to produce fog. Let's take a look at some things that can help you get a unique shooting angle in a foggy shooting environment.

Taking pictures in foggy days is different from taking pictures in sunny days. The surrounding reality, buildings, trees and even people can't see clearly, and there is no clear outline, and often the image has no color contrast and color saturation. This is exactly what is needed in this beautiful "special effect" weather.

In essence, fog can be compared to a large light scattering soft box, which spreads light to a large surface.

Fog usually has poor light and needs more exposure time. In addition, fog makes the air reflect brighter, and there is no doubt that fog will mislead the camera's built-in exposure system and make the exposure less than necessary. Just like shooting snow, shooting in foggy days needs positive exposure correction.

In order to avoid all these potential defects, fog can be used to emphasize the depth of objects, and light and shape can be useful tools. Photos in fog can become mysterious, which undoubtedly makes them so popular among nominees of various photo competitions. Knowing how to use these unique characteristics of fog shooting, it is easy to get …

First, emphasize depth. In foggy days, the farther away the object is from the camera, the worse the visibility and the smaller the contrast, sometimes it is very obvious. This is a good thing and a bad thing. Because the details of the image are more blurred and bright perspective is easy to appear, the volume of the whole image becomes larger in the background blur. But because of this, it is difficult to shoot background objects. Because saturation, contrast and sharpness may decrease, not all settings are within the photographer's requirements.

Although there are no fixed photography rules in foggy days, it is very useful to use an object close to the lens in composition. This position adds some tonal diversity and creates a proper perception that this part of the photo will look brighter due to fog.

Second, the perfect reflection of light, water droplets in the air will scatter light. This softens the fog to a great extent and leads to the appearance of light bands from concentrated or directional light sources. A typical example is a photo taken in the forest in the early morning, which was taken in the direction of this beam of light.

Sometimes, just moving the camera is enough to make these sunlight bring different effects to the photos.

If you are close enough to the light source, the light will be brighter. This situation ensures scattered light illumination, and clear sunlight will stand out in the background.

On the other hand, if the fog is thick or the light source is concentrated, the light will be clearly visible no matter which angle the photographer shoots from.

Third, highlight the shape and outline silhouette fog can highlight the shape of the object, because it will reduce the texture and contrast of the object. Usually, there may even be an incomplete silhouette.

Special attention should be paid to the relative position of objects in composition, otherwise one object or boundary outline may overlap with another object, causing confusion in photos.

Fourth, take photos from the side.

You may have seen photographers complain about the difficulty of shooting in the forest. The difficulty is that it is difficult to "simply describe the existence of trees" and it is necessary to try to shoot directly outside the location area. Go out of the forest, cross the border and look at the trees from the side.

From a distance, fog looks like a low layer of white clouds, but it helps the transparent spread of light.

Fifth, make the photo shoot synchronized with the changes in the natural environment. The fog is constantly changing its position. If the exposure time is not short enough, the fog can't keep the texture of the surrounding space. With slow shutter speed, you can get a smooth and smooth flow of white light with different concentrations from one point to another in the image. However, when the fog moves slowly and smoothly, long exposure will come in handy.

Sixth, pay attention to the condensation protection of water droplets. The main problem of photography technology is the condensation of water droplets in the air. The same water droplets are suspended in the air, and may also condense on the surface of the lens or inside the camera. If the camera is in the right temperature environment and the fog is not too thick, you may not notice the condensed water at all. If the temperature of the camera is much higher than the temperature at which you shoot the smoke, condensation will occur.

Before leaving the warm house, completely seal the camera in a plastic bag, and don't open it directly outside until the temperature of the camera and the surrounding environment remains constant.

Although you pay attention to some details, sometimes there will be some water droplets, but be sure to wipe the lens and camera with a dry cloth.