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Photographing in the blue hour

Photographing in the blue hour - iPhone Tutorial

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Photographing in the blue hour

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- Hey, everybody, Sean Duggan here. Welcome to Nevada City, California, and this week on Mobile Photography Weekly we are shooting in the blue hour. So the blue hour is that time right after sunset when it's that twilight time of the evening before the sky gets fully dark. It's a beautiful blue color. It really is a great time to be exploring night photography. It's the beginning of the evening so it's a good time to start your night photography, and sometimes you can get some of the best photographs there. Now, earlier in this series in a previous episode, I showed you how to add handwritten text over a photo, and one of the photos that I used was this composition right here of the gas street lamp and this lit up building in the back. So this is how I did this shot. Actually, I didn't even have a tripod when I did the shot. I was able to handhold it, and that's one of the cool things about photographing in the blue hour, is just how easy it is to do with modern camera phones. You…

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