Blue Hour Photography Techniques

Following on from last week's video on 'photography in the rain', this latest video demonstrates another useful way to extend your photography trips, by learning about blue hour photography techniques.
Filmed beside the River Thames in Berkshire UK, professional photographer Tom Mackie explains how he had envisaged shooting a sunset, but as conditions went against him, he went to a back up plan, to photograph blue hour.
As much as Landscape Photographers would always prefer great conditions, working with nature means that sometimes photography can be challenging and knowing how to use other techniques can broaden the range of options to photograph.
Tom shares blue hour photography ideas, explaining what type of subject matters work best and the camera settings needed.
This 'over the shoulder' landscape photography tutorial has step by step guides with supporting images photographed in different ways using an array of different techniques.
There is also a handy tip on how to create a long exposure look using an iPhone.
We hope you find this video useful and if you have any questions please just leave them in the comments below.
Thanks for watching!
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[@MichaelBlanchette]

Love blue hour. One of my favorite shooting times.

[@LandscapePhotographyiQ]

Thanks Mike.

[@stulav844]

Terrific learn something every time I watch one of your videos thank you !!!

[@LandscapePhotographyiQ]

Thanks for watching!

[@rosssayer6524]

Thanks for sharing the tips Tom, loved the images. My top pic was the 1st one you showed at the end.

[@LandscapePhotographyiQ]

Cool, thanks

[@JohnHPettigrewFujishooter67]

Love that final image, thanks for sharing.

[@LandscapePhotographyiQ]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@sportsshooter2574]

Looks like this video came out of the freezer and served in the middle of the summer. Nice video, very informative and nice set of images at the end. A link for the macwet gloves would be good to add. I have a pair and are really good.

[@LandscapePhotographyiQ]

I like your analogy, well spotted. We shot that before lock down hit the first time in February and just came across it in the files so decided to put it out now.

[@bongjovi4168]

Great tip for reversing the grad to darken the water :)

[@LandscapePhotographyiQ]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Floydian1311]

You can always turn the lights on in PS, but that's a different story ;-) Love the pano version, Tom, very beautiful!

[@LandscapePhotographyiQ]

Many thanks Henk!

[@kenklontz1945]

Thanks for the iPhone tip

[@LandscapePhotographyiQ]

My pleasure!

[@mainline464]

Lovely images

[@LandscapePhotographyiQ]

Thank you

[@georgesmith3022]

is it so cold in england in June?

[@LandscapePhotographyiQ]

It certainly can be as I've experienced snow in June before, but it's one we found in the files.