Michelle K Wood Photography

You will find the most beautiful, kindest, gentlest light for your landscape photos during the Golden Hour or the Blue Hour.  Golden Hour is the 90 minutes just after sunrise and just before sunset . The light is soft and gives a lovely hue to your landscapes, and especially portraits of people taken outside.  Blue Hour , technically known as Civil Twilight, is the 45 minutes just before sunrise and just after sunset . This is just before the sun peeks over the horizon and just after the setting sun sinks below the horizon. It offers a very dim, sometimes spooky or eerie light to your landscapes. It is not suitable for people portraits unless you want the blue-ish background and have some fill light to use on your subject, or if you are doing some zombie photos! As shutter speeds will be slow due to low light conditions, you will probably want to use a tripod to steady your camera.  To plan ahead, especially if you're traveling, you'll want to determine the exact times of day