Misty mono with a bit of drizzle.
For adding atmosphere to a photograph if there is no people in the shot I think that a bit of mist goes a long way to add to the mood, this shot was not set up at all or even planned. My parents came to our house for dinner one night and it was quite sunny when they entered the house, a couple of hours later when it was time to go we got to the front door and it was very dark, not only was it very dark but it was also very misty, not only was it dark and misty but is was also raining very lightly and as soon as I seen it I just knew I had to take a shot, I quickly ran upstairs and grabbed the D700, it was very cold and wet so I didn’t want to stay out long with my gear so I upped the ISO to 6400 and set the aperture to F/2.8 and widened the lens to 28mm, the reason I widened the lens was because you get a longer hyper focal distance the wider the lens so shooting at F/2.8 will not be much of a problem for the depth of field. The hyper focal range of the settings I used were a bit like this, I was 20 feet from the subject so the near limit was about 12 feet and the far limit was about 58 feet, so after a little bit of mathematics in my head (way to much info to type in this post I may write a tutorial on the subject at a later date) I worked out that the hyperfocal distance will have been around 30 or 31 feet this was enough to keep the shot in focus for the length of the alley. The shutter speed was 1/50 but to get a faster speed I would have had to up the ISO which would have added more grain to the shot so I leaned on the fence and stood as solid as possible to avoid camera shake.
