I like to spend some time "scouting" out new locations. Especially when I'm looking in areas where I photograph all the time.
It's so easy to play it safe and shoot all the same places, so I force myself to add something new to every session.
I was in Boston recently - just walking though town on a dark and gloomy kind of day and I looked up ... HA! I know - well, I never look up.
The sky was magical - and had that "rainy day in old London" look.
Now the way to make a sky even more dramatic is to expose for one stop below a "correct" exposure.
This also works well for the blue skies I saw just a short time later.
New England is well know for the phrase " Hey! you don't like the weather .. wait five minutes
I did .. and the weather changed!
It's so easy to play it safe and shoot all the same places, so I force myself to add something new to every session.
The sky was magical - and had that "rainy day in old London" look.
