Notes on fog

Fog is a gift for a photographer and a nuisance for a camera. A few notes from a morning I spent in it.

Meter for the light, not the white

The meter wants to turn fog grey. Let it be bright: open up a stop and a half and watch the highlights. The picture should feel like breathing out.

Find something dark

Fog is empty without an anchor. A tree line, a post, a figure: one dark shape gives the eye somewhere to land, and the mist does the rest.

Do not hurry

Fog moves. It opened for about ninety seconds at 6:52 and then closed again. I had been standing in the same place for forty minutes and I took four frames. One of them is in The Long Way.