{"id":425,"date":"2016-11-06T15:43:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/?p=425"},"modified":"2016-11-06T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T14:43:17","slug":"a-story-about-german-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"A story about German fog."},"content":{"rendered":"

Often\u00a0when shooting a landscape, things\u00a0don’t work out as planned. You may\u00a0plan ahead as much as you want, as a photographer you’re always subject to whatever the weather is willing to offer you. And the weather can be quirky. Last week I tried to shoot\u00a0an image I had previsualized entirely in my head. But I ended up with something completely different.<\/p>\n

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It was a location I knew well. I’d shot it before, in the summer. The leaves were green, \u00a0the air was clear, the light was a bit hard. It wasn’t bad, but I could do better. I would do better! So I planned a drive over there in the autumn. Golden leaves, fog over the water down below, the rising sun straight ahead across the water. It would be perfect! A couple of days ago I set the alarm for\u00a03 am, and off we were.<\/p>\n

But you see, what I had in my mind was not what I found when I arrived at my destination, one hour before sunrise. That wasn’t just fog hanging in the valley, those were just plain clouds. I could barely make out the top of the hill on the inside bank. Even though I was counting on the fog breaking up in the warmth of\u00a0the first sunlight that would appear, I started shooting right away. It didn’t look that bad after all. And if\u00a0the clouds would start rising, it\u00a0would be game over.<\/p>\n

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Guess what? They did rise. From behind me murky clouds started moving\u00a0across the landscape and blocking the rising sun. The fog rose up above\u00a0the level where I was standing, and it didn’t look like it was going to lift within the hour. It was a good thing I started shooting when there was still some clear sky ahead. Luckily the early morning pinks and oranges reflected nicely on the canopy of clouds beneath my feet, to make for a lovely image. But it didn’t end there.<\/p>\n

Lately I developed the habit of simultaneously shooting with a wide angle and a telephoto lens. While one camera is on a tripod, connected to a cable release for easy triggering, I pick out details of the view with a second camera. While I was shooting the previous image, which was developing slowly, I had time to do a panoramic multiple image shot of the horizon. It turns out this image is my favorite from that morning. It wasn’t what I set out to achieve at all, but it’s nice none the less. I returned quite happy.<\/p>\n

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Often\u00a0when shooting a landscape, things\u00a0don’t work out as planned. You may\u00a0plan ahead as much as you want, as a photographer you’re always subject to whatever the weather is willing to offer you. And the weather can be quirky. Last week I tried to shoot\u00a0an image I had previsualized entirely in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/krisvandevorst.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}