Fairy tale forrest shrouded in fog and rain

Tons of tones and high dynamic tonal range in pouring rain – my tips for making photographs in poor weather conditions.

Photostorytelling. October 2019. Corticiasca, Switzerland

Here is what I learned out in the rain with my camera.

My 5 personal tips.

• Go out whatever the weather.
  Usually it’s not the weather that hinders me. It’s myself.
• Wear a rainponcho.
  My absolute favourite, it helps to keep me dry and warm; beside this it protects my gear. GORE-TEX, Derzimax & Co – and special hightech rainwear whatever they are named – forget them all. A good rainponcho beats them by far.
  Actually I use the VAUDE hiking backpack poncho, but the Fjaellraeven poncho would have been the better choice.
• Use a minimalistic camera bag.
  Under my rainponcho I don’t wear a camera backpack – I don’t want to put it off and on in the rain. Instead I carry a small sling on ThinkTank Mirrorless Mover 5 or 10 camera bag, perfect for onehanded handling. See my blog article about this fabulous camera bag here.
• Simplify your gear.
  I use only one camera body with one lens. Forget about fiddling changing lenses in the rain and using filters etc..
• Use weathersealed gear.
  My actual camera gear is not weathersealed. However weathersealing will be a strong argument for my next purchase.

 

Below there are a few images of yesterdays fairy tale forest shrouded in fog and rain.

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Photographs: Canon EOS M50 and EF-M 15-45 mm IS STM lens, CR3 RAW format, converted to .dng. Edited in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

 

What are your recommendations?
Any tips or thoughts?
Please let me know in the comments below.

 

 
Photographs: RICOH GR II, GR Lens f=18.3 mm 1:2.8. .DNG RAW format.
Edited in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

 

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