Let’s Start With Golden Hour

Everything looks better in beautiful light, and the most gorgeous light of the day is golden hour, morning and evening.

If you’re looking to begin building a photo library for your farm business, or add fresh, stunning images to update it, a one hour golden hour photo shoot is an economical and low stress option.

We can capture a great variety of photos by shooting as many different tasks/places/people/details we can put into that pretty light during that timeframe.

So, for example, if collecting eggs is a chore, we photograph that in action only as long as it takes to get a good shot, then we’ll move on to checking beehives, watering tomatoes, etc.

Have as many ideas as possible queued up before the shoot begins so we can move smoothly from one concept to the next.

I like to reserve a few minutes to just wander and photograph the beauty that catches my eye.

The number of shots delivered depends on the variety of ideas we move through.

Here are a few farm galleries from one hour shoots (each of these would have cost $150 plus travel, if applicable):

45 images: https://newenglandfoodandfarm.pixieset.com/vargafamilyfarm/
25 images: https://newenglandfoodandfarm.pixieset.com/tracysfarm/
45 images: https://newenglandfoodandfarm.pixieset.com/springatcoldspringfarm/

If you're looking for a varied photo set with beautiful images, we can do that in just one hour!

Fire away with questions!

Winter ~ caplanson@outlook.com

Pro Tip: Your “Golden Hour” is specific to your location. While it is based on sunrise and sunset, you can’t look it up in the Old Farmers’ Almanac because your topography is unique.

Here’s how you determine the timing:

In the area where you want most of the photography to happen, watch for the EXACT MINUTE when the sun sinks below the horizon or behind an obstacle like a barn.

Your evening “Golden Hour” is the 60 minutes before that time!