From The Intern Corner//The Golden Hour

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When is the perfect time for an outdoor portrait?

Have you ever wondered how photographers make outdoor photos look so amazing? It’s because they know when the best time is to take a photo.

The Grand River in Brantford, Ontario. Time: 8:45pm

You can’t just go outside at any time and take a photo. You have to wait until what is called the Golden Hour. The Golden Hour refers to the perfect time to take a photo outdoors, which is during or right after sunrise and sunset. These times have the perfect light.

They are the times when the sun is a golden orange colour and there are beautiful colours in the sky like pink and purple.

It’s the summer right now so the sunlight is really nice from 5:00am-7:00am and from 7:00pm-9:00pm. That is when the best photos are taken.

A lot of people think that a good time to take a picture is during the middle of the day at around 11:00am-4:00pm when the sun is at it’s peak (that’s when a lot of people chose to book their outdoor photo shoots), but actually that’s not a very good time to take pictures outside!

The light is at it’s worst at those times. The lighting is very contrasty and harsh because the light is right above you which causes strong highlights and shadows from the sun. For example, if you were taking a picture of a person in the sun there would be a strong shadow right behind them (which can look good if that’s what you’re going for) and unpleasing shadows under their eyes, nose, and chin.

But sometimes you don’t have a choice and you have to shoot during the day, so you can look for ideal weather conditions like cloudy skies which help to keep everything at the same exposure and helps to diffuse the sunlight.

So basically if you want to take an awesome photo outside, use the light from the sun coming up or going down. That’s the best time for photos.

Landscape photos are usually taken in the morning or evening as well.
I went to the Grand River here in Brantford to take some photos in the evening.

Time: 8pm-9pm

Taking pictures in the evening works great for portraits too.

Time: 8pm

So give some thought about what time you want to book your next photo shoot :)

Cheers!

-Orianna

We Chased the Sun.

It was pitch black when our alarm went off, singing sweetly to our uninterested ears.

We drove through the inky black until we met Mr. Sun somewhere along the 403 and liked him so much we chased him all day.

Through the skies of Toronto, Denver, San Fransisco and straight to Kona we watched him dance and sway. He played shy between the clouds but followed him anyway.

I used to never take photos of nature, sunsets or clouds. Now I can't help it. It's just so beautiful and I suppose I am growing soft.

And since it's been at least two weeks since I shared a poem from my repertoire, a little ditty if you will by Emily Dickenson: (Wait, is it couth to call something by Dickinson a "little" ditty?!)

Sunrise and Sunset

I'll tell you how the sun rose, A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst,  The news like squirrels ran.  The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, "That must have been the sun!"

........................ But how he set, I know not. There seemed a purple stile Which little yellow boys and girls Were climbing all the while

Till when they reached the other side,  A dominie in gray  Put gently up the evening bars, And led the flock away.

#nofilterneeded