The Fog Thickens
We are in an "air stagnation" event in the Seattle area; it means frequent fog by the rivers.
This little scene is a favorite of mine; there are a couple of palominos who graze in the field from time to time. I like to see if they are around so I can get a photograph. Today, on a whim, not expecting much, I drove by and liked the look of the fog.
The fog tends to form in the river valleys at night, and then will lift a bit during the afternoon, as it has done here. A very little bit in this case. At slightly higher elevations—we call it the Plateau—the fog will either lift entirely, or hug the ground all day and lighten up at night.
It’s not a thick fog, and I wasn’t expecting any photo ops, so it was fun to get this one.
I took a series of shots (7) with the camera turned vertically. I then made a panorama from them in Capture One software. They were shot at ISO 100, 1/500th of a second, and f/1.4 with the 105mm lens. Despite its weight (3.6lbs), it has become my general-carry lens because I like the images I get with it. They are sharp, and the fast aperture limits focus to just where I want it to be. Even at this distance, the trees in front are in sharp focus but even those a little way back are slightly soft.
Closer up, the lens is able to delivery very limited depth of field (technical term, means depth of field in focus). This shot isolates just a few branches in focus, and the rest of the landscape looks dreamy and out of focus:
I associate this type of photography with historical black and white photography, so I applied a classic Tri-X filter (introduced in 1954, so a bit after the period I was thinking of, but it worked!):
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