Blue Hour Revisited

One might recall this ↓ photo which I posted less than a week ago. I had gone for a short walk after a hot day, and just for a walk sans camera.

But when I saw the iPhone photo, I decided that it was worth another visit with my actual photo gear. I wanted a similar photo with more clouds.

Saturday evening gave me that opportunity, and I took a similar photo from a similar spot on the bridge.

It is a 5 second exposure and is close to what I wanted although the clouds could be even more dramatic. I can keep looking and watching the sky this summer and return there fairly easily.

In fact, I plan to do just that using other focal lengths. I hadn't thought that a wide angle shot would work until I saw the previous iPhone result, but I would like to get town hall larger in future. But then I will miss the foreground rapids. There's always a tradeoff.

One reader asked me about blue hour, for he hadn't heard about it before, but it is familiar to photographers, not that we necessarily use it a lot.

Blue hour is the time after sunset but before the sky turns black. Photographers tend to chase sunset or sunrise photos, but blue hour can also be special.

That ↑ was the photo that I went for, and I am very happy with it, but as almost an afterthought, I took a landscape orientation photo a little farther along the bridge. If possible, I think I like it even more. It processed slight darker, at least in the lower half, and is a little more saturated overall.

So yeah, I think I'll return from time to time with different focal lengths and see how it goes.

Meanwhile, I am very happy with these results.