When to Shoot: Dusk
While this is something that is debated endlessly online (pretty much like every topic online now that I think about it), many landscape photographers prefer to shoot around sunset rather than at dawn. You still get that soft, beautiful, flattering landscape light, but (a) you don’t have to get up crazy early; (b) you don’t have to scout your location the day before—you can do it an hour before; (c) the “window of shooting” opportunity is longer—from around 45 minutes to an hour before sunset to around 20 minutes or more after, depending, of course, on what and where you’re shooting. If you’re shooting in the mountains, the ...
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