There are sev­eral inter­est­ing times througout the day to take pho­tos. For instance, I recently talked about the Golden Hour. Today, I’d like to talk about the last moments of the dusk.

Fam­ous build­ings and struc­tures are typ­ic­ally lit with Sodium vapour or Halo­gen lamps which pro­duce an orangy /​yel­lowy type of light. Now what’s the com­ple­ment­ary col­our of that? You’re right, it’s blue. What do we know about warm and cold col­ours? Warm col­ours stand out, make the object appear closer, more present, where­ase cold col­ours cre­ate dis­tance and sep­ar­a­tion. Now that’s a won­der­ful con­trast, isn’t it?

So next time you want to take a night shot of some­thing, try not to take it when it’s already com­pletely dark, but a bit earlier, towards the end of dusk. That way, you can achieve a lovely deep, dark blue in the sky (weather per­mit­ting…) which can give you beau­ti­ful night shots with a not-​so-​boring skye.