Magical Photography

The Golden Hour

In photography, the golden hour is a period shortly after sunrise or before sunset during which daylight is redder and softer compared to when the Sun is higher in the sky. In the morning, as the sun rises, the light is softer than later in the day when the full and harsh rays of the sun shine down upon us.
Likewise at the end of the day in the hour before sunset, the sun is close to the horizon again. As in the morning, the light travels in an oblique manner and so, instead of hitting objects straight down, hits them at an angle.