Thank you very much for the comments. To answer your question, Piper, it is very hard to get a good shot on a foggy or overcast day with the lavender because it blooms for only about two weeks during the hottest time of the year. I saw many postcards in the area that were obviously shot in such conditions but the photographer must have lived right in the midst of the the fields to be able to catch such weather. I would have loved to been able to do it - the variety of hues that you can get out of the lavender is amazing and the overcast blue was unbelievable.

As far as exposure goes, if the foggy conditions are included in your composition, it would likely be problematic and I would probably try a few shots over like you said. I would rather blow away the sky and keep the other parts of the scene. Best of all though, I would get the foggy sky out of the picture and shoot the fields exclusively. This would be like using a great big softbox on the entire scene and would produce images like those in the postcards I mentioned above.

I would like the low-down wide-angle look, too. As long as you could find a position where you were at the bottom of a hill looking up into the fields. Maybe next year :) #3557