Slayman Studios : Sunrise and Sunset Photography- Civil Twilight

Hello, I hope everyone is doing well. I had the opportunity to photography a sunset, in which I felt that all elements were just right, the light, the colors, the Awe I felt when looking at the sky. It just happened that yesterday it was getting grey and very cloudy, I thought, would be nice if the clouds would break, catch that sun moving into the horizon.. I stepped out a few times, thinking... This will never happen, then on the last trip, I was in shock at the wonderful colors. I took a few shots chaning settings to get dramatic effects, then I ran in my car to the walking track to catch the view I see so many times when Im excercising.

How to photography sunrises and sunsets:
The light most photographers capture sunrise and sunsets is what we call Civil Twilight.
Twilight is: the time between dawn and sunrise or between sunset and dusk, during which sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere illuminates the lower atmosphere, and the surface of the earth is neither completely lit nor completely dark.

Sunrise and sunet are two of the most photographically dramatic times of the day. It is beneficial as a photographer and especially if you love to take landscape shots to KNOW official sunrise and set times for the time of the day for the area you located.
Why?
1. Knowing time will get your mind and camera ready instead of being taken surprised and running for your camera and in the process of chaos, forgetting things such as shutter/aperture.
2. It allows us to identify patterns , durations and peek times of twilight color.

Sunrise: The time of morning when the upper edge of the disk of the sun is touching the horizon.
Sunset: The time of day when the upper edge of the disk is touching the horizon, this is how we get that dramatic twilight colors.
* If the sun's lower edge is touching the horizon you still have the same sky,, this is your time to get ready and wait for the upper edge to hit the horizon, its the reflection against the clouds that gives us that pop.

My personal preference to sunrise or sunset photos is to have an object back lit for dramatic purposes. How many times have you or someone you know taken photos of clouds with just the clouds in the shot? Pretty boring, I think.

Here are the images below. Please comment. Thank you for reading!