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Golden hour is shorter than you think

Plan for twenty minutes of good light and you won’t be disappointed.

Written by Rosa Delgado

Good photos are mostly about seeing, not about settings. Before you lift the phone, notice where the light is coming from and what sits behind your subject. Those two things decide most pictures.

The clip below is what we put on while sorting. It runs long enough to get through a month of photos.

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Written by Rosa Delgado

Rosa collects family stories from readers and turns the best ones into posts. She answers most of the email, too.

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11 comments

  1. Ana Ruiz

    I printed our first book after reading this and my daughter has not put it down since.

  2. Lucy Turner

    Lovely post. The bit about keeping the blurry photos made me go back and rescue a few.

  3. Noah Baker

    I printed our first book after reading this and my daughter has not put it down since.

  4. Grace Kim

    We tried the one-photo-per-day rule last month and it made picking so much easier. Thank you!

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