Blue Hour look

Friends over the city

Photo by Jonny Kennaugh on Unsplash · shot on Canon EOS 5D Mark III

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Original Gear

CameraCanon EOS 5D Mark III

LensNot recorded

SourceJonny Kennaugh on Unsplash

Camera Settings

Original

Aperture

f/3.2

Shutter

1/125

ISO

—

Focal length

—mm

Edit Recipe

Original

Lifted shadows and a gentle contrast curve
Colour and warmth balanced to the light
Grain and vignette to taste

Full editing recipe and shooting steps included

Notes

Dusk cityscape shot from an elevated rocky vantage point, with warm amber and cool purple tones bleeding across the horizon. The light is diffuse and fading, coming from a low sun already below the horizon, casting no hard shadows. Foreground figures are silhouetted against the glowing city below. Shallow-to-moderate depth of field keeps the city as a soft bokeh wash. Mood is contemplative and cinematic, with a filmic, slightly desaturated warmth.

Look character

Figures shot from behind against a luminous dusk cityscape, creating natural silhouette framingCity lights render as soft circular bokeh due to focused foreground and distant backgroundWarm amber horizon transitions to cool lavender sky, giving a split-tone paletteFilmic grain and muted contrast suggest either high ISO or deliberate post-processing emulation

Difficulty

Needs a short window of light.

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