Blue Hour photo course in Cologne: Pictures of the night

In this photo course, you will learn how to take pictures in different lighting conditions, from sunset to blue hour to blackness of night.

The course schedule:

• We start on the Hohenzollern Bridge plateau.
• Here, we use the architectural diversity to refresh our basic knowledge and bring ourselves all up to date with the same level of photography.
• At dusk, we walk along the Rheingarten and do the first long exposure exercises.
• As a group, we cross the Deutz Bridge to Kennedy Ufer.
• Just in time for blue hour, we position our stands so that we focus on the illuminated cathedral.
• In the dark, we take a brief introduction to light painting and thus complete our workshop.
• The course ends at Deutzer Freiheit.

The course content:

• Sunset features
• Western and Eastern Blue Hour
• Long-term photography in detail
• Manual ISO setting and focus
• Working with the remote shutter
• Professional work with the stand
• Long exposure motion blur
• Introduction to light painting