The hour on Ștefan cel Mare
In the second week of October the sun clears the cornice on the east side of the boulevard at 15:18 and is gone from the pavement by 16:22. We timed it from a balcony on a Tuesday with a stills meter, not from a weather app.
If a brief asks for “late light” on Ștefan cel Mare this month, the plan names 15:20 as the start and 16:30 as the hard stop. After that you are shooting the shop interiors, not the limestone. Primăria still wants a week for a notice if the camera stands on the sidewalk.
The chestnut drop is early this year. Yellow on the pavement reads as a carpet until a street sweeper passes at 07:40. For a morning frame we now write “before the sweeper” on line three.