On July 2nd, I went out at sunset to scout out spots from which to shoot the Fourth of July fireworks. The tides were going to be approximately the same on this night as on the fourth and I decided to check on a few possible locations that were tide-dependent. As I drove from one spot to another, I went by Redd’s Pond and noted fog rolling across the water. I had never seen the fog act this way at Redd’s Pond before and quickly jumped out to try to capture this phenomenon.
I’ll note that this was some of the toughest lighting conditions I have ever had to deal with. The fog was moving over the water very quickly and I had to find a shutter speed with which to freeze the fog but the rapidly dwindling light meant ratcheting up the ISO settings. I ended up with two dozen images when all was said and done and headed home shortly thereafter. Initially, I was very frustrated with the captures. None seemed to have done an adequate job of capturing the feeling of being at Redd’s Pond as fog rolled across the water. I worked on three of the images in color and black and white but none seemed right. I let the images sit and worked on others instead. Almost two weeks later, I decided to have another go at the images. I found this one which I had passed over initially and worked on it for about an hour trying to bring out the subtle fog while keeping contrast in Pond View and the trees of Old Burial Hill.
I hope I did the scene some justice in the end – it really was incredible to witness.
