What is golden hour or golden light? It is a photography term.?

Answer 1

As Antoni and others have said, the Golden Hour is the hour just after sunrise and before sunset. Technically, the reason the light is golden is because the sunlight has a lower color temperature and daylight film and digital sensors set for daylight record this as yellowish/orangish.

Tungsten film won't give you that because it is color balanced for a lower color temperature and the colors will be recorded closer to their actual colors.

A way to NOT get the Golden Hour effect in digital is to use Automatic White Balance. A lot of people have been very dissappointed in their sunsets because the camera was set on AWB. No Gold Medal for them!

Some posters have said that the images are softer at this time, too. Not really. As long as the sun is providing direct light on the subject there is going to be a hard edges to the shadows. Any effect the skylight has is to reduce the difference in light levels between the sunlight and shadows and therefore the contrast. The sun is so small relative to the subject that is always produces sharp shadows.

Besides the gold tones, another reason that these hours are preferred is that they provide much more interesting modelling of the subject in terms of shape and texture.

There I go, rambling on again. Your answer is in the first paragraph.

Vance

Answer 2

In photography, the golden hour (also known as magic hour) is the first and last hour of sun during the day when a specific photographic effect is achieved with the quality of the light during these hours.

Typically, lighting will be softer (more diffuse) and warm in hue, and shadows will be quite pronounced as a result of the sun being so close to parallel with the horizon. This is because the sun light is traveling further through the atmosphere and coming from a less harsh side angle, instead of straight down.The golden hour is a mild version of alpenglow, as described by Galen Rowell.

During the golden hour, highlights are less likely to be overexposed, because the direct light of the sun is less intense compared to the diffuse light of the sky. In landscape photography, the warm color of the low sun is considered desirable to enhance the colours of the scene.

Answer 3

You can't capture "bokeh" If you want a lens that will give you and out of focus background/foreground, then try to get one with a large aperture (small f-number), such as f1.8 or f1.4 Not sure what you mean by golden hour or golden lighting. Are you talking about sunsets? Any lens can capture sunsets.

Answer 4

No and yes:
The golden hour is an emergency medical term, referring to the hour )approximately) one has in an emergency situation (accidents) to save a pateint's life; Golden light is when the sunshine is of a particularly bright golden quality, and usually forms a halo behind a subject (eg. a person's head) like a high-light, that frames the subject.

Answer 5

early morning during sunup or early evening right before sun set...golden hour... hour before sundown, hour before sunrise. look at the light, its almost orange gold, not harsh bright like midday sun, i preffer cloudy days, not overcast but cloudy days with small patches of blue sky.

Answer 6

dust and dawn - the change of light to dark - dark to light

the two greatest hours of the day to some like me

called the change of light hours or the magic hours also

the money hours to some

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Answer 7

as far as I can remember... the golden hour/magic hour is the time between sunset and dusk/dawn and sunrise where you can produce a soft portrait because the sky would reflect the sunlight, or in panorama shot it would produce a striking color.