Golden Hour in Photography
In photography, Golden hour or we can say magic hour is the best friend for outdoor Photographer. Professional photographer says that golden hour as a moment with the best lighting everyday. If you ever watch Full Metal Jacket movie, you will see how Stanley Kubrick as director maximize golden hour technique in that movie. So, what is the golden hour? and When it usually happen?
Lighting factor is the most important factor that can determine how good and how bad a photograph. For example, when we shoot current mountain or sea in the daylight and then in afternoon, you will get 2 photo that really different because the lighting is pretty different.
Golden hour in photography mostly happen between before and after sunrise and sunset, about 5 am until 7 am in the morning (sunset), and between 5 pm until 7 pm in the afternoon (sunset). In both of that time, we can get the photo with the best lighting when you want to shoot in outdoor.
When it's time (golden hour), the sun light dashing the subject from oblique angle so it give rich dimensions and textures and also give magical warm golden color. You can shoot in different type, for landscape, portrait, sunset/sunrise or silhouette in golden hour time and definitely you will get pretty amazing photo.
How golden hour make photo more pretty?
A landscape photo in the daylight, maybe it will looks like this :
While the landscape photo in the golden hour, it can be like this :
You can see how the lighting quality influence a photo over all. The gradation that appears in the sky is very very beautiful, the oblique light direction make more good dimension and full of rich texture and also about the warm color that make more more beautiful.
Counting the Golden Hour
If my explanation above still make you confuse when exactly golden hour is appear, you can find when the exactly golder hour happen in current location with some equipments, Such as :
- The Golden Hour, it is the website to estimate when the next golden hour happen in current location, you just show it in map location.
- Twilight Calculator, Similar with Th Golden hour site.
- Using the Golden Hour app for IOS and Android
One thing that really important, you have to wake up early bird and never give up to shoot until the night comes up. Best Of Luck!
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