The golden hour is the warm low light just after dawn or before dusk. Shoot in the golden hour.
The light is warm because it travels further through the air and loses the blue. In medicine the golden hour is the first hour after an injury, which is a quite different use.
1noungolden hourThe warm low light just after dawn or before dusk.
“The whole shoot was planned round twenty minutes of golden hour.”
golden hour is a period.
Golden plus hour, from the colour of low sunlight.
From golden + hour.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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