Photograph by Cotton Coulson
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of my favorite weather motifs is shooting before the sun rises, and I
especially love it when there is morning fog and mist in the air. These
weather elements add mood and mystery to the photograph.Be prepared. When I know that I need to get up early the next morning, I
try to prepare everything as well as I can the night before. A couple of things to remember before setting out on an early morning shoot is to check that you have fully charged batteries and spare memory cards. Also, check your ISO settings to be sure they’ll be correct for the new day. In this situation, where there was very little daylight available, I pushed the ISO up to 3200 so I could be sure to capture the scene from the moving fishing boat. The latest cameras easily allow you to push the ISO up this way, without introducing digital noise. Since I am always shooting in RAW, I leave the white balance most often on auto—I can always tweak the color in postproduction using a good application like Apple’s Aperture, Adobe’s Lightroom, or Google’s Picasa. —Cotton Coulson
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