House of the Risin' Sun

Thiophene_ Guy

The morning fog is so thick that, occasionally, you can see a cloud of droplets wafting through the air. This morning the sun cooperated, briefly giving backlit sunbeams. A blurred car seemed better suited to the scene than a sharp one, thus low shutter speed was used.

(Processing: Lightroom was used to correct distortion, exposure, and straighten before Kodak Tri-X film was simulated with DXO Filmpack)

I named this after a Bob Dylan song at the instigation of UTATA's iron photographer 101 challenge, needing to include:

1 - pavement
2 - a shadow (non-human)
3 - title from a Dylan song

Otherwise this would be "Morning fog (1 of 3)"

How to make it:
This image resulted from practice, although I didn't know I was practicing at the time. I had several foggy days to tinker with. Early on I found the contrast under the trees was interesting. When the opportunity to shoot sunbeams arose I tried it with just trees. I liked that but it seemed out of balance, even without the sun in frame. I was on a busy road, so I added passing cars to the image. None made it better until I tried blurring. I thought I had my image but, to be certain, I tried several with the sun in frame and found this. In short: I found something I liked (sunbeams) and tried more variations than I thought I needed before the opportunity was gone.

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