![]() Golden hour is the golden child of all the magic hours. Golden Hour, Blue Hour, Twilight and all of the beautiful photos you’re about to take once you’ve read this guide! ![]() Now that we’ve got all that under our belts, we can get to the juicy stuff. The longer, faster red wavelengths penetrate the atmosphere and very generously put on that spectacular sunset. The short, blue waves scatter and scatter and scatter until they pretty much dissipate. The red wavelengths, which are larger and faster, pass right through the atmosphere during the middle of the day.Īs the earth spins, and the angle of the sun changes (one more time: light phases depend on sun elevation), the light has to travel through much more of the atmosphere to reach us. Because the short and slow wavelengths of blue are the most readily refracted, it’s blue we see when we look up at the sky. During the day, when the sun is straight above us, the amount of atmospheric debris its light travels through is at its lowest. In the meantime, read on to add depth to your understanding of light.Įver had a kid ask you “why is the sky blue?” and come up short when racking your brain for an answer? What we’re about to tell you holds the key to looking like the almighty genius superhero in the eyes of the next curious child that comes your way, so listen up.īlue is at the slower side of the spectrum, (up near its friend Violet) and it gets scattered quite easily when it collides with the particles in the atmosphere. Make it your accomplice bathe your subjects in the soft rays of golden hour light, or schedule your shoot during blue hour for more delicate, peaceful, and muted tones. Our Sun Tracker pulls everything we know about the skies into a streamlined platform so you can explore the margins of light. Don’t forget to check out the Sun Tracker feature in our app, too. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the magic hours (sounds romantic, doesn’t it?), helping you use your camera to paint with light. Get nerdy with us as we explore the wonder of light and the way it behaves at different times of day. It may seem mysterious at first, but once you get a general handle on the patterns of light at various times of the day, you’ll harness the power to make colours more vivid or subdued (before Lightroom!). How did we get so lucky? But getting composition, light, direction, subjects, location, production, settings, and the weather to all align in your favour pose just a couple little complications that can sometimes feel like a lot to juggle. With golden hour, blue hour, and the twilight in between, the opportunity to capture stunning imagery feels positively abundant. Regardless, we’re objectively inhabiting the best planet in the cosmos and the cherry on top is the daily spectacular displays of light bouncing around the atmosphere. We refer to the sun as if it moves around us, not the other way around. It’s hard to shake our impression that we’re at the centre of the universe.
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