Magical Blue Hour Sunset

Blue Sky Flame

Every night before I leave Manhattan I watch the sun set. On this particular night the sky was looking very different. My back is turned to the windows looking out at the city. One moment I looked behind me, something caught my eye. I searched and searched around the office to find the perfect point of view to capture the sunset. The glow off Goldman Sachs Headquarters in Jersey City, NJ is what really made me take this photo. You don't normally see the sky look like this near a city. Most of the time you this type of sky is if you're out on a deserted island with nothing but you and the stars shinning in a clear sky.

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A Sunset That Ends The Day

A sunset normally means the end of the day is near. For me, it means that it's time to go out in the city to explore. Night photography is a major skill to learn. You have to make sure there is enough light for the camera sensor to focus on. To our natural vision, it may seem the lighting is right and we can just take a photo. Not the case with cameras, the cameras' sensor is always looking for a light source to lock on for a perfect shot. You have to consider shadows, contrast, exposure, motion, lastly, how fast it matters to get the photo sharp or blurry. Each photographer has his/her vision of each photo they take. There is a thinking process for each press of the shutter button. A lot has to do with buildings and people being framed the perfect way possible to tell a story. Night time is 

"Light Hunting."

In this photo, you have the building on the right framing the sunset, the tall tower, the helicopter, and the buildings below in the foreground. The real photo is not the building on the right taking up half of the photo. Put your hand over the right half of the photo and that's what I really wanted to capture. Sometimes you can use objects to frame the real photo you want to take. You can actually use people to frame a photo of someone else. For example, if you see a person standing in between two people, the two people are the frame of the person in the middle of them. That's natural framing. I would like for you to go out and take a minute to look around and different shapes of objects and people and create your photo.

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The Calm Before The Photo

Every photo takes a few seconds of your life away waiting for the photo to appear on the back of the camera. This photo I took was 15 seconds of my life I will never get back. The main thing is that I was able to capture it before it was gone. Our eyes are our own camera. Imagine everything we ever saw was a photo taken? How many photos do you think your life has up to reading this blog? I've been doing photography for 3 years now. There are sessions I shoot where I've taken over 1000 photos in a day. When you get home and look back on what you shot, not every photo makes the final cut. Those photos in time that don't make the final cut either sit on your computer hard drive for later or they get erased from its ever existing. 

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