01/09/2026
Ever wondered how to make your golden hour wedding portraits more golden?
It can be helped in camera by increasing the Kelvin number to higher than the common
5500. However, unless you would like to put a powerful strobe off-camera with an orange gel, you’ll have to look at your post production editing.
You could do the following:
✨ double the number on the temperature gauge of your white balance & tint
✨reduce your contrast and exposure
✨ desaturate the blues and turquoises and
slightly saturate the orange & yellow
✨ adjust the hue on your greens to yellow
Make sure you’re actually shooting during golden hour by checking your phone’s sunset time and getting out there an hour before sunset - best results happen closer to sunset!
However your plans will be scuppered if pesky clouds gather on the horizon, unless you’ve got off camera flash skills and a decent prime or long zoom lens, but that takes away from the idea of authentically exploring a space during sunset I guess!
Did I miss any tips? Let me know in the comments.