You Choose: Enhance the Fog or Let it Be

Photographers use all sorts of techniques to change the mood of an image.

For instance, while creating this landscape photograph of a rainy day in Jungsun, South Korea, I wanted to accentuate the misty and foggy atmosphere.

When the camera couldn’t properly convey the scene, I took a deep breath and exhaled on the front of my wide angle lens.

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As you can see, the above “breathed-on” photograph is far more moody than the below one.

It also better represents the reality of the scene.

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While modern technology allows us to make these changes digitally, there’s nothing quite like doing it in-camera.