We've been getting quite a bit of mist and fog in the last week here in the north of England. This is a photo I took through some reeds on the edge of a field with the light from the setting sun only just breaking through the haze.
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@Brandon: Thannks Brandon. Re the processing there's almost none applied to this image. It was composed deliberately in the viewfinder for the square crop you see (the Nikon D700 has handy square crop guidelines in the viewfinder).
@Brandon: Hi Brandon.....long exposure technique is a bit too complicated for a quick response like this but there are links on the "articles" page of my web site to detailed descriptions that I've written: http://www.ianbramham.com/section255881.html
Usually when I'm doing daytime long exposure photography I'm trying to blur cloud movement or still movement in the sea and so I need exposure times measured in minutes. To achieve that I'm using a minimum of 10 stops of nd filter, and often 16 stops.
Re the f8 part of your question, it's not a hard and fast rule but most DSLR camera/lens combinations are at their sharpest at f8 or f11 - apertures which also provide good depth of field for landscape photography. Sometimes I do use apertures higher or lower than f8 or f11 if I need to in order to achieve a particular shutter speed but I try to avoid them if I can.
At apertures higher than about f16 diffraction problems start to affect image sharpness and at apertures lower than f8 I start to worry that I won't have enough depth of field.
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NIKON D700
1/200 second
F/16.0
ISO 200
35 mm (35mm equiv.)