Here is one of the exposures captured last Sunday. That one was captured 40 minutes (17:55) after the official sunset time, corresponding to sun being about 8 degree below the horizon (but there is a chain on mountains blocking the sunset light in the west direction), so it was getting darker than the sunset time found on website (17:15).
Originally posted by mattb123 Also, I think the good photography window during blue hour is a lot darker than many realize. This darkness can bring it's own challenges if your landscape elements aren't producing or reflecting any light.
I noticed that. [ BTW, you have here fantastic blue hour shots ] . To achieve a decent amount of blue, I had to wait as it was getting darker and darker, my desire to taken more exposures was fighting again the cold that pinched my fingers. The challenge is to wait long enough to have the blue, but at the same time not have the details completely sunk in shadows.Here I had to pull the shadows otherwise the face of buildings, trees and river would be too dark to my taste. There is also the problem that if I waited longer, the sky would be darker and the highlights would be burned.
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Originally posted by mattb123 I usually shoot RAW with AWB, blue hour or noon or anywhere inbetween. If AWB misses the mark I can always fix it later. I find the AWB does pretty well for me with blue hour and sometimes even makes it a little too blue in my experience
. I'm surprised of this. For me, AWB reduces the amount of blue, so maybe I exposed too early after sunset. I've set the white balance to daylight (I believe for Pentax the color temperature for the daylight WB is around 4800 Kelvin) , and noticed that CTE renders much more blue but too much to look realistic.
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Originally posted by tokyoscape So IMHO, I go there before sunset to scout location and I don't wait, I capture everything from early golden hour to early night. And try long exposure during blue hour too. I love long exposure of car or people walking during blue hours.
You're sharing really amazing shots here, that's inspiring. Your cityscapes renders beautifully with the mix of lights and blues. Thank you for sharing. One advantage blue hours exposures is the time of the day, a magical time typically after work :-)
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Originally posted by repaap Here couple of shots
All I can say is, wow!
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Originally posted by subsea They are from a series of about 15 that I got by chance. No planning for this, the cruise boat just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
Yep, you were lucky to be there at the time and place for the framing. Great shots.
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Originally posted by StephenHampshire .I normally reckon to get a blue sky for up to about 45 mins after sunset between 60 mins and 30 mins before sunriseThis was was sunset + 40 mins
Thanks for giving some times relative to sunrise , sunset, very useful.
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Originally posted by normhead Here's some more...
Some are blue hours, some others not (more like sunsets) :-), but that's ok.