How to get the BEST photos during BLUE HOUR!

The blue hour, also known as the magic hour is famous among photographers. You can get some incredible photos because of the soft shadows, blue colours and the mix with artificial light. In this week's video I visit three different locations along with Greg Snell who came all the way from Germany to visit me.
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0:00 - The Wave
4:48 - Fjordenhus
7:56 - The New Little Belt Bridge
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[@gregsnell]

Man that first time-blend turned out great. 👏

[@randyschwager84]

It amazes me how you are able to take mundane scenes and turn them into masterpieces! Thanks for taking me along!

[@MrCoolAttitude]

Blue hour has always been my favourite time for landscape. Sunsets are cool but def prefer blue hour. Glad this is up.

[@mikegoodwin9896]

The image of the bridge with the flowers in the foreground was really stunning.

[@scotty4418]

Really enjoyed this Mads and great to see you and Greg meeting up and look forward to seeing his video. Most of the images I have seen of the Wave building have been black and white fine art images so it was nice to see your colour version. The Fjordenhus building looked a really cool subject too so I have added a map pin to my google maps as Denmark is very much a place I would love to visit for the architecture Wow....just watched Greg's video and I'm speechless and totally blown away for the shout out by both of you. Thank you Mads, that really has made my day 🙂

[@gregsnell]

Well deserved mate 👍 It would be cool to see your results from this Wave building. 📷

[@LeePelling]

Some stunning images there mate, good to see you and Greg out together looked like a great night of shooting !

[@pamelahooper7851]

The bridge photos are spectacular.

[@salvirji]

Nice to see some architecture shot from you. They look great buddy

[@LittleBigMediaCo]

Remember to warn people about the yellow path lights in that first location. If shooting anything in the foreground close to the path, those lights will definitely bleed onto that subject & throw out the white balance between the foreground and the background. Great video. Some amazing locations.

[@LeonaSim]

Worth the wait 😮

[@artiedoc]

Great Subject! The photo of the flowers bridge and cross clouds ❤ Beautifully composed!

[@brucesmith9144]

That cloud is perfectly positioned in the photograph to cross with the bridge pillars!

[@cmichaelhaugh8517]

Beautiful! And you Danes have some amazing architecture!!

[@robertwhite-photography]

Man you are just cranking out these videos :) beautiful shots as usual !! A photo workshop in Denmark with the one and only MPI, now that would be a treat!

[@robertleem5643]

Those photos were stunning, many thanks for sharing

[@sigurdrille9693]

Beautiful Images, thank you!

[@jakobschneeberger3965]

Great shots from the bridge 👍👍👍

[@bojoable]

🙌🔥🔥🔥

[@lindonfc]

Totally on another level. Well in fella. ✊

[@mikkiscott9995]

Wow, those are some amazing shots! Great and informative video!

[@JROwensPhotos]

There's no real official definition of blue hour, but there are official definitions of the twilights, and I think you might have conflated them. 18° below is when astronomical twilight ends, and 12° for nautical, 6° for civil twilights. What I most often see for blue hour is the range of 3°-10°, which allows for the 10°-18° range being a bit on the darker side, and the sky definitely being too bright and not really blue yet in the 0°-3° range.

[@stuartmcnair6696]

Yes. I see -4 to -6º but certainly for north of 45º N in summer that is waaay too bright and restrictive.

[@jamjamme]

Exactly. In Vejle, around midsummer, the sun doesn't reach -12°. -12° is designated the end of nautical twilight because at sea the horizon (transition from sea to sky) becomes indistinguishable and therefor it becomes impossible to measure the altitude of a star or the moon with a sextant. You need quite a long exposure and a decent amount of moonlight for photography at that point. This morning (29 June 2024) at half past midnight the sun would have been at -10.2° in Vejle.

[@CRobbins131]

All of the shots are amazing! What do you have the white balance set to for blue hour shots?

[@renegossel5139]

Realy nice Pictures

[@simonlawphotography]

Visiting Copenhagen for a couple of days in September and looking forward to seeking out some of your photo locations. Lovely images of the wave and bridge 😊

[@tjsinva]

Nice change of pace. More coffee. Carry on. 👍🥂

[@sjedouglas]

I'm not sure if this was filmed on the same evening but I saw an amazing sunset at the Little Belt Bridge on the 10th of June (I was staying in the countryside about 5km from it). The colours seemed to last forever so I was out with the camera for ages, capturing the bridge from various angles.

[@RonaldMoD]

Virkelig smukke billeder! Og tak for et godt og interessant tema. Bruger du nogen apps til planlægning af solens placering eller tidspunkter for den blå time eller andet, som du vil anbefale til fotografer?

[@spidersj12]

To me, the blue hour photo at 4:43 works far better than the sunset time blend because the sunset isn't reflected in the water.

[@CozmicKid72]

I think it depend on how you define the largest bridge in Denmark. If it is by lenght you are way off. Then it is only number 8

[@torogoz2001]

Good to see another Leafs fan in your video! Thanks for making these... I always learn something.

[@davelindey8023]

The dude with the Leafs hat has impecable taste!

[@erichstocker8358]

Hard to think of the blue hour at 1AM in the morning!!

[@henk_101]

For the algorithm! 😁

[@rivin6726]

The night vlog really has a lot of noise. lol

[@MadsPeterIversen]

It's shot on the Osmo pocket 3 and it was close to pitch black so no wonder ;)

[@kenharnish5778]

Wow! Great images! And it was great to see two of my favorite KZbin photographers in one video. But, is it really that cold there?

[@paulseymour7485]

Wow those shots are superb !!! Great video.

[@peterobinson5465]

Looks like they are spraying the sky there to definitely not natural clouds .Great images though Mads