Back from our little hon­ey­moon, here’s a new post with a fresh pic­ture from Valèn­cia (Spain).

I took this photo on the social “out­ing” from the POSTA ’09 con­fer­ence, where we vis­ited the Ciutat de les Arts i les Cièn­cies (City of Arts and Sci­ences), an area right in the city where dif­fer­ent build­ings, such as opera, sci­ence museum, IMAX, etc. com­pete for the most futur­istic look. It quite reminded me of Brasília (the cap­ital of Brazil).

Any­way, today’s tip is to take as many pho­tos as you can when you’re in the so-​called Golden Hour, the time just before sun­set (or just after sun­rise, if you fancy get­ting up early). This gives you some won­der­ful light to play with and take amaz­ing, moody shots and por­traits of people.

Watch your white bal­ance though (!), make sure your cam­era (when set to auto­matic) doesn’t com­pensate for the warm col­ours, res­ult­ing in too neut­ral a feel­ing. Either manu­ally set the white bal­ance to some­thing around 7500°K, or use the “sun­set” mode /​pic­ture style or whatever it may be called.