Tennessee Mystic Lake and Forest
The local weather forecast had predicted a chance of light fog for the coming morning so I had planned on taking a canoe around the shore of the small forest lake looking for wildlife to photograph. As you can see from the image, the forecast was more than a little off with the fog forecast. It was so thick I could barely see beyond the bow of the canoe. With the lake and forest wrapped in a thick blanket of fog, any possibility for wildlife photography was out of the question. Paddling along the shoreline I came upon a small, almost closed off, bay and turned in to explore. From the middle of the bay I looked back toward the entrance and saw the rising sun beginning to cause the fog to glow.
From my vantage point in the bay the scene looked almost like a nature-made abstract. It was the best photo op I had seen since I had set out. However, it lacked a foreground element to give the composition some depth. The canoe was the solution. With a line, I tied it to the shoreline near the bay entrance and then gently push it back out on the water. I walked around the shore, found a location, and waited a little for the canoe to drift into the best position. I used an exposure to keep the fog from becoming too bright and let the rest of the scene fall where it may. I took two images. One with no camera movement to hold the shape of the canoe and the other with a small amount of ICM to render the forest into greater abstraction and then blended them together in photoshop.
Tennessee Mystic Lake and Forest
The local weather forecast had predicted a chance of light fog for the coming morning so I had planned on taking a canoe around the shore of the small forest lake looking for wildlife to photograph. As you can see from the image, the forecast was more than a little off with the fog forecast. It was so thick I could barely see beyond the bow of the canoe. With the lake and forest wrapped in a thick blanket of fog, any possibility for wildlife photography was out of the question. Paddling along the shoreline I came upon a small, almost closed off, bay and turned in to explore. From the middle of the bay I looked back toward the entrance and saw the rising sun beginning to cause the fog to glow.
From my vantage point in the bay the scene looked almost like a nature-made abstract. It was the best photo op I had seen since I had set out. However, it lacked a foreground element to give the composition some depth. The canoe was the solution. With a line, I tied it to the shoreline near the bay entrance and then gently push it back out on the water. I walked around the shore, found a location, and waited a little for the canoe to drift into the best position. I used an exposure to keep the fog from becoming too bright and let the rest of the scene fall where it may. I took two images. One with no camera movement to hold the shape of the canoe and the other with a small amount of ICM to render the forest into greater abstraction and then blended them together in photoshop.