{"id":5094,"date":"2012-11-17T20:08:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T12:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.my\/?p=5094"},"modified":"2012-11-17T20:36:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T12:36:30","slug":"the-blue-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/the-blue-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In photography (and cinematography), the &#8216;blue hour&#8217; is the luminous period just after sunset. The glowing sky and lingering hue is more visible to the camera than the human eye. Preceding warmer colours are part of the &#8216;golden hour&#8217; while the cooler &#8216;blue hour&#8217; comes after or overlaps. The specific time, duration and mixture depend on your geographical location, season and the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Also known collectively as the &#8216;magic hour&#8217;, it is actually shorter and takes place from around 6:50pm to 7:40pm, here in Malaysia. The opposite applies to sunrise and dawn.<\/p>\n<p>At 7:25 pm on the Kesas Highway, I set the camera on a mini-tripod and placed it low on the asphalt. A 1.5-second slow exposure captured the streaks from the tail-lights of a speeding truck basking under magical afterglow.<\/p>\n<p>Olympus OM-D, ISO 200, f11, 1.5 sec.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/magic_hour.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5095\" title=\"The Blue Hour\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/magic_hour.jpg\" alt=\"The Blue Hour\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/magic_hour.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/magic_hour-113x113.jpg 113w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/magic_hour-169x169.jpg 169w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/magic_hour-450x450.jpg 450w, http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/magic_hour-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the magic hour, the sky is aglow with a lingering hue&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/the-blue-hour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,563,8,519,9],"tags":[1128,687,1129,622,1130,114,511,169,197,1127],"class_list":["post-5094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography","category-instagram","category-life","category-omd","category-photography","tag-blue-hour","tag-dusk","tag-golden-hour","tag-long-exposure","tag-magic-hour","tag-olympus","tag-om-d","tag-sky","tag-sunset","tag-twilight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5117,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tvsmith.net.my\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}