Blue Hour photo course in Stuttgart: 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 our “Blue Hour” photo course in front of the Stuttgart Art Museum.
• After a short introductory round, we start with initial practical exercises to refresh our camera knowledge.
• The modern building offers us the ideal motif for this.
• We continue across Schlossplatz, where we will of course stop to take pictures of the New Palace, towards the Upper Palace Garden.
• In the castle garden, just in time for blue hour, we will position ourselves in front of Lake Eckensee with a view of the Stuttgart State Opera, which offers us a wonderful photo opportunity to photograph the evening lights and successfully capture the atmosphere with our camera.
• We learn how to use our stand and which manual adjustments are mandatory in order to successfully capture our surroundings photographically in changing lighting conditions.
• The course is rounded off by a brief insight into light painting.

The course content:

• Special features of sunset
• 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