The thing about foggy, rainy, or cloudy days is that they're a pain in the ass to meter for. I mean, here you are fiddling with the knobs on your camera, trying to keep your object of focus from being too dark, while trying to avoid having the sky completely white.
I've found the best way to get around this is to use B&W film... or switch to the B&W settings on your digital. B&W is completely forgiving of all of your photographic screw-ups. People have been trained by decades of old photography to view B&W as ARTISTIC and anything you can't do properly with a camera will always get seen as intentional.
Brilliant stuff. Don't be afraid to do it.
* According to the Laws Of Photography, pure white is bad, you know... Unless it's what you're trying to do, then it's genius. The Laws Of Photography are pretty much as arbitrary as Canada's pot laws.
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