# Golden Hour photography
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 13, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361 "2014-09-13T02:58:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361/1 "2014-09-13T02:58:55Z")
Is there any difference in the quality of light between morning Golden Hour and evening Golden Hour?
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### Author:  [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2014, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361/2 "2014-09-13T03:37:43Z")
I’ve found that the morning light tends to be more yellow, while evenings trend more red.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361/3 "2014-09-13T05:04:21Z")
In my area the “gold” of the golden light is stronger in the evening. The light also seems softer in the morning and more harsh in the evening.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2014, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361/4 "2014-09-13T05:06:08Z")
It’ll probably depend on what the conditions are like to your east and west. Are you next to an ocean, for instance?
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### Author:  [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361/5 "2014-09-13T06:25:33Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> It’ll probably depend on what the conditions are like to your east and west. Are you next to an ocean, for instance?
Nope. NYC.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2014, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361/6 "2014-09-13T10:44:23Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> It’ll probably depend on what the conditions are like to your east and west. Are you next to an ocean, for instance?
> [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](#):
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> Nope. NYC.
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Isn’t New York City next to an ocean? Close enough to affect the light, that is, as opposed to, say, \*Kansas \*City.
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2014, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361/7 "2014-09-13T11:51:50Z")
Waxing nostalgic about a NYC already gone in the 1960’s, John Cheever describes river light reflecting into people’s apartments. He doesn’t say which river, or if it was only one of them.
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### Author:  [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2014, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361/8 "2014-09-13T12:40:07Z")
Evening golden hour here in the east coast of Australia is often spectacular because there’s a desert to our west. I’ve never seen more spectacular sunsets.
Here’s a typical [Melbourne sunset](https://flic.kr/p/5VWhEX), taken by my friend John.
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### Author:  [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2014, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361/9 "2014-09-13T13:27:06Z")
I really like afternoon “lemon-light,” thin but delineated.
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### Author:  [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/golden-hour-photography/698361/10 "2014-09-13T16:51:40Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> Isn’t New York City next to an ocean? Close enough to affect the light, that is, as opposed to, say, \*Kansas \*City.
I’m an hour on the subway away from the ocean. I assumed that meant I was too far away for it to have an effect.