What's interesting about the colors of twilight -- the blue hour -- is that it doesn't matter if the sky is clear, cloudy, or if it's raining. You will still get the beautiful cobalt blue color in the sky if you shoot at the correct time -- just before dark. You can see in this picture of the Eiffel Tower that the ground is wet. There was a light drizzle and the cloud cover was complete, and yet I captured the classic colors that make this time of evening so photogenic. I shot this with a 16mm focal length (using a 16-35mm lens), and the settings were .4 seconds, f/2.8, 100 ISO. I captured complete depth of field at f/2.8 because, with a 16mm extreme wide angle lens, depth of field extends from about 16 feet to infinity. All of the elements in this shot, including the ground, were at least 16 feet from the shooting position.
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