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Dec
22
Devilish
The Magic Hour
In response to A Crude Wildlife Eulogy posted 8/12/10 at 7:14pm by danieltowsey.
The Magic Hour
Written by
The Visionary Folk Photographer
http://daniltowsey.photoshop.com


The magic hour is created by Gods beauty.

There are two magic hours.

A magic hour occurs one half hour before on to one half hour after
either the sun rise or the sun set.

The ideal time and place is as follows.

A magic hour does not happen often.
One has to be very observant of places
and the weather to capture an image of Gods magic.

The ideal weather conditions are a completely windless time
with whisper thin high altitude clouds.

The clouds will then reflect the colors of the sun back down to earth,
when the sun is below the horizon.

In a place where you have an expanse of water in front of you.
Where the water has no waves.

The water will create a reflection of the heavenly colors in sky.

You then place your camera on the tripod that you just made perfectly level.

The camera is set to night shot or slow exposure.

You can experiment with the exposure time.

A camera sees much better then the human eye.

With the slow exposure the camera will capture all the colors in the sky.

Having no wind is ideal for these long exposures
as you do not want any wind to move the camera while taking the pictures.

I call these images. Glow Images.

Please go here http://danieltowsey.photoshop.com
Have a look in the Glow series album for beautiful examples.

You will also have the time to take a series of many (panoramic) pictures
from on end of the horizon to the other.

Be sure to make sure that each picture will over lap the next to the center of the image.

This is why it is so important that your camera and tripod be perfectly level.

You can then use a photo stitching program to easily join your images.

Unfortunately I have not yet found any on-line photograph community sites that can upload panoramic stitched images.

Please let me know if you find one.
Contact me at;
[email protected]
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