Adjusting the White Balance
In valleys one often encounters beautiful landscapes with water elements like waterfalls and mountain streams. Most of the time these deep valley landscapes can be found in shadowed locations. You can take interesting pictures framing sunny and shadowed elements in the picture. In such cases the color tonality of the picture will change depending on the white balance setting. You can find yourself hesitating which white balance setting would be best.

Set the white balance to [] to take pictures of landscapes
By using the [] white balance (regardless of the weather) to take pictures of landscapes such as fall foliage or the fresh green of spring, one can get pictures of landscapes with delicate tonalities. Although the shadowed spots will appear more bluish, the blue hues rather help to bring out their special atmosphere in the picture. Also the water surface and splashes of water elements will look bluer than in real life but that just adds to the refreshing atmosphere and results in a picture with a distinct feel different from a picture taken using just the automatic white balance setting.

Compare the effects of different white balance settings


White Balance at []


White Balance at [AUTO]

Useful things to remember
Some camera models have the [] function. By using [] and compensating towards the BLUE direction you can accentuate even more the blue tones in the picture.