I mentioned before about the best time of lighting when taking photos outdoors is usually at dawn or sunset. Naturally, this is just a “rule”. As photographer David DuChemin said in one of his youtube videos, paraphrasing him here: learn the rules and then forget about them. We shouldn’t be too technical when taking photographs as I mentioned in the previous, the most important thing is to capture the moment. As with many rules, it does not apply everywhere necessarily. For example, street photography does not rely on the orange silhouette on the people passing by. Many photographers shoot in black & white, negating the need for any specific colours on the photo, but rather shadows become important, the shades of grey, light and darkness.
(Not my image btw, it’s a copyright free image, but it displays the use of composition and when framed in black & white can be so powerful.)
Instances where this comes to great effect with sunrise/sunset is when taking landscape photos primarily. Thomas Heaton provides great insights into landscape photography, catching the best light requires him to get up early in the morning, to get to the spot of his choosing, he planned this as well. And when the sun rises, gives him just a few minutes of window opportunity to take the ultimate photographs. Follow him on youtube if you are interested in Landscape photography. Here is another example of such (free) image:
It is important to think about contrast, the colours, the shadows, the moment, all those things can play an important role in stirring an emotion in the viewer when looking at an image.
I haven’t gone up early in the morning to take that kind of image, so it’s easiest for me to just wait until sunset, I have taken one myself, trying to capture the colours, trying not to include too much of the houses that were in the frame:
What kind of image affects you the most emotionally?
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