Tip: Saturation on a sunny day

This is obvious when you think about it, but it's one of those things that nobody ever tells you. How do you get bright and saturated colours on a sunny day without people squinting at the sun?

Here's an example of the problem. The easy way to avoid having people squint is to shoot in to the sun. But unless you're using some creative lighting, that means cranking up the exposure and you end up with the sky blown out and everything else looking a bit pale, like this:

If you shoot with the sun behind you then the people in the photo will be squinting. But there's an easy solution: Shoot from a low angle. This gets you saturated colours, a properly exposed sky, and because the people are looking down at you they won't have the sun in their eyes. Like this:

Here's another example. This was the first photo I used this technique for. It was an unusual choice to do a photo of badminton players outside but time constraints made it the sensible option, and the weather was so nice that it would have been a shame to have the sky blown out. At first I set the group up with the sun behind them, and I was going to under-expose the ambient and light them with flash. But then the penny dropped and I thought of shooting with the sun behind me, but from a low angle. They still squinted a bit because I didn't go low enough, but I learned how this technique could work. And then the photo ran in black & white!