Wednesday, 4 November 2009

Magic Hour Examples

I've just been looking around the web for some examples of magic hour photography. I've picked out some pretty random images really but I'll categorize them into Urban and Rural since these are two areas I am keen to experiment in.
Urban
These are images are part of a set of images by Liang Yue. They were taken at dusk and even without sunshine in the images they work quite well.
These two images are by a photographer called Gregory Crewdson. These two look a lot more like magic hour photographs than the previous two. I like Crewdson's work because he makes even the most ugly looking scenes look 'beautiful'. The colours are the main reason these images appeal to me. I also like the fact they all have a story or narrative to them.

Rural
These are two images are by Robert Adams. They really capture the beauty of the sun setting in the magic hour. There is terric tonal range and detail; particularly in the first image.


Finally this is an image by Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams is somebody who I greatly admire. The work he produces is stunning. This is an image taken in the evening and is a perfect example of the kind tonal detail i'd like to achieve with my photographs for the magic hour should they be in black and white.

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