Golden perfection
People travel from all over the world to experience an African sunrise or sunset. Songs and poems are written about the yellow, red and amber hues flushing over the vast bush and savanna horizons, but more often than not, photographers struggle to capture the magic. In this article I want to look at the science behind capturing this perfect moment in nature.
The light we see from the sun is white, but made up of different colours at different wavelengths. At sunrise or sunset, when the sun is at the horizon, the distance the light travels through the air to your eyes is significantly further than when the sun is overhead. Red, orange, and yellow are long light waves and green,
