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Golden Hour
The soft, low-contrast end of the day, held open instead of pushed
Checkout opens once the Lemon Squeezy store and this pack's variant id are set.
- 12 looks, not one filter
- Desktop .xmp and mobile .dng in the same download
- Works on the free Lightroom mobile app
- Personal and commercial licence on your own photographs
What this pack does
Most golden hour presets add contrast, which is exactly backwards. The light at that time of day is low contrast, and fighting it produces a harsh image wearing a warm filter.
Golden Hour lowers contrast slightly and lifts all three channels off pure black, so the shadows go soft and slightly hazy the way they actually look into the sun. Blue falls furthest, which warms the whole frame without touching saturation.
Saturation is pulled fractionally down. At this hour the scene supplies its own colour; adding more is what makes an image look filtered rather than lit.
Looks included
- 01Hour 01 Open
- 02Hour 02 Haze
- 03Hour 03 Backlit
- 04Hour 04 Warm
- 05Hour 05 Clean
- +7 further variants in the download
Also on the rack
All 10 packs
Kerala Gold
Afternoon light the way it actually felt, not the way the sensor recorded it
- Travel
- Street
- Architecture
Haldi
Built for ceremony colour, where every frame is already saturated before you touch it
- Wedding
- Portrait
- Events
