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Photo looks, lighting & styles · #08

Blue hour

The time after sunset or before sunrise when the sky turns deep blue. Once the sun has set, the sky turns two bands of deep blue, the windows and street lamp come on in amber and the person becomes a dark blue shape.

Lighting & time of dayblue hourtwilightdusknight citycityscapedeep blue sky

Full motion specification

How the movement works

For city and night scenes that need both a blue sky and glowing lights.

  1. 01Scene 1: a head-and-shoulders figure in front of a horizon at y 150 (head centre x 270, y 78, radius 29 px, no face or hair).
  2. 02Sun: radius 18 px at x 120, sinking from y 40 to y 190 while the effect reaches 70%, fading out between 40% and 80%
  3. 03Colour: sky #2C3B5E at the top and #4A6191 near the horizon, ground #283452, buildings #34446B, figure #1C2439
  4. 04Lights: one window in three and the lamp bulb turn #FFC75A; flat rings of 13 px and 8 px (#FFE3A3 at 35% and 60%) around the bulb
  5. 05Top-right time 12:00 → 18:35
  6. 06Timing: the effect comes in from 0.4 s to 1.4 s, holds until 4.0 s and is gone again by 4.8 s (one pass = 5 s, cubic ease-in-out (about cubic-bezier(0.65,0,0.35,1)))

Prompt

Harbour city at blue hour: deep blue sky, warm windows and streetlights reflected in the water.