While learning about photography, you find a ton of information. Technical details, composition rules, what to do, what to don't, and slowly you get familiar with a couple of terms and names.
One that intrigued me in particular was the "golden hour".
The magical and effervescent moment right before the sunset when the sun rays are reaching the earth at a lower angle and it covers a longer distance through our atmosphere, and everything around becomes golden and slowly as the rays are further and further away the sky gets purple and then only darkness remains.
Somehow that's how the theory sounds, at least how I remember it, but at first when I was struggling with ISO and shutter speed, convinced that the "M" Mode is the way and anything else in between is a blasphemy (silly, I know) for me it was just the "Golden Hour", and I knew that going out during that time frame my pictures will look better.
Of course, shooting at sunset is not enough, but the learning curve needs to take us through all the possible stages and, ideally, we learn constantly.
On that optimistic note, I'll end today's story with a couple of 2011 sunsets.
the first one is my fav :-)
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All good
Especially the First Shot :)
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I love the first one! :)
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I like them all, but the first one is my favorite :) Isn't the "golden hour" also the moment just before sunrise? I remember that from some photography lessons I took a long time ago.
Thank you! ^_^ You have golden hours in the mornings as well, but it's after the sunrise. Before the sunrise, when the sun is under the horizon, you have the blue hour, as well as in the evenings when after the sun goes below the horizon you have a blue hour. Think about the horizon as the symmetry axis and you have a big portion of daytime. Then you have golden hours both on the left and right of the axis, and then blue hours.
Or even easier, you can check this article right here for more details about it: https://petapixel.com/2014/06/11/understanding-golden-hour-blue-hour-twilights/
Personally, I am not a morning person and I never chased golden hours in the morning. I'd rather do it in the evening and enjoy my sleep in the morning :)))).