Dusk Photography Quotes

Dusk softens the sharp points of trees outside my window; the sky slowly darkens, then blackens around an orb of moon. Hours later, a faint blue tinge yields to the soft pastels of dawn, and soon enough sun is streaming in, the stop-start rhythm of the train making it all feel like still photography, thousands of images that taken together create a scene in motion.

[Louis] knew on some level that fame is not the story we tell; it is the story the world tells us. And the world was telling Louis it wanted to see itself reflected in gouache and charcoal of painted calico; that the human eye longed to trust the illusion of likeness. Render perfectly a meadow at dusk, a horizon at dawn, and people will love you for it. For giving them something they didn't know they already had.

Photographers live for beautiful light and the sweetest light presents itself in the hours surrounding dawn and dusk.

Regardless of how you come up with the good land and good sky images, you’ll need Photoshop to combine them. I’ll explain how to merge the two images in a way that our visual system finds believable in chapter 6