Blue Hour Photos
As I was perusing blog land yesterday, I discovered a new term that looked fascinating. It’s called the “blue hour” of photography – a “sweet spot” of time when the sky turns a brilliant blue when taking night photos. It’s invisible to the naked eye, but looks incredible in pictures. I was directed to a site called www.bluehoursite.com and found out the blue hour for my area of the world last night was between 8:14-8:40 p.m. I decided to give it a whirl…
I set up a little scene on my kitchen table. In order for this to work, you need to have some light of some sort. I used three candles. Here’s what it looked like at about 7 p.m.
Here’s what it looked like after 8:15…
Isn’t that amazing how blue the sky and water is? I’m not gonna lie, though. I took a lot of pictures before I got this one! I couldn’t quite figure out how to get the candles light enough with the sky blue behind… The flash pictures got pretty interesting…
No matter how I tried to diffuse that flash, my reflection showed in the window. Nope, that wasn’t the look I was going for…
Eventually, I moved the photo shoot outside where no sliding glass doors got in the way…
And this ended up being my favourite shot. (#66 – taken at 8:39 p.m.!!)
{Picture taken with tripod with self-timer set to reduce movement. Settings were f4.2, 1/1.6s, ISO 200.}
What a fun post! I am continually learning my dslr camera and I've never heard the phrase blue hour before. Awesome! . . . I'm not sure how I landed on your pretty blog but I'm also a beach cottage girl-my husband and I moved into our beach cottage fixer six months ago and are busy renovating! Small world! God bless, Erin @ Rare&BeautifulTreasures
Those are so pretty! I've heard of the blue hour before but never tried it!
Your pictures are great, I' ll try " the blue hour"" for my country.
From Argentina, Julia C.