My travel photo to Havneparken, Copenhagen

This is another example on how to capture great colours in your travel photo. The easiest way to do that is to take photo under good lighting. Yes. It may sounds meaningless but it’s true. You know where I’m coming from. Great travel photos are all about great lighting. If you wish to capture great sunset photos, you must first see a great sunset in actual! No post photo editing, lens filters, or artificial flash lighting could get any result as close. The easy but not that easy way to photo striking sunset colours is to wait for the best timing for sunset, like the one below that I shot in Copenhagen.

Havneparken is a harbour front neighborhood in Islands Brygge district of central Copenhagen. It is one of the most lively and popular places along the Copenhagen harbourfront in South Eastern Copenhagen. DanHostel, the huge hostel we stayed is just across the river at the other end of a connecting bridge.

Some EXIF info: Photo taken with my Nikon D7000 and Nikkor 18-105mm lens. Shot in Program Auto mode, with Shutter speed 1/160 Sec and Aperture f6.3. Focus distance was set to 28mm. ISO 100. Preset Cloudy White Balance. No flash fired and No exposure being compensated with Matrix metering.

To retain the striking warm colours of the sunset that could be neutralised by Auto White Balance setting, I adjusted the White Balance to Cloudy preset. No artificial except natural sun lighting was used for this photo. With a bit of luck in timing, another great photo scene of Copenhagen was captured nicely. 🙂 – Travel Feeder, your ultimate travel photo guide to Europe.

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Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.