Say you went too long on golden hour and ran out of time. You don’t have to pack it up and go home yet, you just have to understand what comes next: blue hour. Blue hour is that period between golden hour and night when the sun is down, but some light is still there, a sort of blue light that gets darker until it is night. This is blue hour, and you can photograph during it, sort of.
There are a few catches to blue hour with the first being that the light will give your photos a blueish or cold look to them. Next, you need to understand that blue hour in the morning, things will start dark and only get brighter and blue hour in the evening things will start bright and only get darker – the time it takes depends on the time of year. Finally, the light tends to be weaker during blue hour, so expect to open your aperture up wide or at least have a lens that can do so.
If all else fails, you can always go black and white with photos taken during this time.
For these photos, this toddler wanted me to photograph her as she danced around with her fairy wings. It was getting dark out but as I always say – the best time to do photography work with children is when they want pictures taken of them. So, we went out and took a few photos.