The Golden Hour – Ciaran Buckley Photography

So for the last few weeks I’ve been taking a lot of walks in the evening with my camera trying to get pictures around dusk when the light is just right. Sometimes you get lucky with the right combination of light, clouds, street lamps and water, here are some picture of those times.

The sun is either going up or coming down in this one I can’t remember which.

Deep Blue

The full moon using my new zoom lens 🙂

Night time in rock ppol near Paço De Arcos

Just after sunset

The sea was angry that night

Night time long exposure on the beach

Sometimes when the light isn’t quite right you have to make your own light, to do this all you have to do is get some steel wool like the kind you use for scrubbing pots and pans, set it on fire whirl it around like you have never whirled before.

Steel wool fire and the night sky.

I kind of panicked a little with this one and just started spinning it anyway I could

Steel Wool Spinning

One of my first attempts at steel wool spinning

Then other times you get really lucky and you managed to catch lightning striking, so luck in fact that you catch it twice.

I took like 80 pictures that night trying to catch the lightning and only managed to get like 2 decent pictures. This one I think is only okay.

I think this is my favorite picture that I have ever taken.

I really hope you enjoyed these picture, they are by no means perfect and there is still plenty of room for improvement but I was really happy with how they turned out. As always I hope you enjoy the pictures and let me know what you think in the comments.

Peace and Love,

The Foxy Prophet.

October 26, 2016October 27, 2016 by ciaranbuckleyphotography Categories: light Painting, night time Photography, The Golden Hour, UncategorizedTags: art, Atlantic Ocean, Beach, canon Photography, canon1200d, Digital Photography, Dusk, fire, golden hour, light Painting, Light Painting Phototgraphy, Lightening, Lisbon, Long Exposure, Long Exposure Photography, night, night time, night time Photography, Nightscape, Ocean, orbs, Paco De Arcos, Photography, Portugal, sparks, Spinning, spirals, Steel Wool 4 Comments

So the for the past few days I’ve been trying to make use of the Golden Hour, this the hour before and after dawn or dusk. The dusk one is pretty easy but for dawn I’ve actually had to use an alarm clock to wake up in the mornings which is something that I’m really not used to doing, but I think it was worth getting out of bed for.