Landscape Photoshoot & Blog

When looking for a landscape to photograph, a specific landmark caught my eye because of how the fog was rolling into the mountain before a storm. I chose the location because I saw how the fog was reacting to the mountain as it was covering half of it, and I knew it would look ominous. In Colorado where I am from, we do not get much heavy fog compared to Washington and its islands, and I thought it was fascinating. As it was raining, I pulled my Zoom lens out and clocked my first few images to adjust my shutter speed, aperture, Izo, and set my main settings to cloudy. I experimented with different shutter speeds to get my lighting correct and allowed my aperture to move around willingly, but the aperture settings did not go too high. My Izo was set to auto because I did not want my images to be grainy. The first photo was captured with a shutter speed of 1/125 and aperture of f4.0. It allowed the tree elements to pop more because of the lower amount of light being let into the shutter. The aperture was turned down to the lowest setting because I had not wanted much movement and the lighting was set. In the second photo, I turned my shutter speed down by almost half and turned up my aperture to gaze at the effect that this would create with the new technique. The shutter speed this time was set to 1/60 and aperture was f7.1. This baffled me because I thought that the photo would be too bright and show too much movement, but in fact, it made the fog look more misty, dense, and it faded into the trees better. The only thing I was not a fan of with the second shot was the fact that a bit of the telephone pole near the left side of the landscape peeked into the shot because I did not have a tripod, as it was suggested. I learned that I need to be more patient, still, and experimental when taking my shots with different settings.