The fog that morning was thick enough that in most shots you cannot see Manhattan at all. It temporarily thinned here so you can just about see a silhouette of the other side. The thickest fog I ever saw was one night when I lived in this area and you could not see anything of Manhattan at all, including the brightly lit skyline that is just a bit south of here. Because of the lighting, a fog needs to be that much denser to obliterate Manhattan at night than it needs to be during daylight, even in the early morning light that is in place here.

I allowed more color in this shot than in any of the previous images from this series. I played a bit with the tones and added some texture in OnOne Perfect Suite. I also used Lightroom to adjust the color balance using the curves function. Like many early morning pre-dawn shots, it had a significant blue cast straight out of the camera, and the white balance control seems to have difficulty fixing that.   I was surprised to find that my preferred method of dealing with this issue – the Levels control – doesn’t exist in Lightroom. So I used curves to do pretty much the same thing, and while I had a bit of difficulty figuring out how to get the curves function to offer separate red, blue, and green channels, once I figured that out the adjustment was pretty easy and satisfying.