[dspirit79]

Originally posted by Salar
A proper WB is exactly that, proper whites in your image.
However, some images get tricky; ie' the one above.

In the case that you have multiple color temps, depending on the composition you are going for, it can aid the overall presentation of the image. One rule of thumb that is often spoke of is attaining "depth" within your image. This visual depth can be either through space (DOF), colors (WB), time (Shutter), or a myriad other methods to display depth.
Your image above succeeds because it provides that visual depth due to multiple color tempertures.

However, if you wanted to display a picture exactly as your eye sees, then you will have to take multiple shots, each custom white-balanced for different light kelvins. You would do this by customizing the wb to each light source, and subsequently combining the layers into one (a good tutorial can be found here: http://www.webdesign.org/web/photosh...ures.5288.html).

In fact, for my paroxym shot, this is exactly what I did.



The two different WBs in this picture are to emphasize the warm building tones in contrast to the "cold" environment. This was acheived in the camera (WB Shift/BKt 0,0/BA+-3) and PS (layer masks).
And to answer your question from the other thread: the reflection was achieved through PS. The reflection already existed, but it was too faint, so I re-did it in PS.

What you do with the WB really depends on the look you are going for. I would say the WB in the picture above worked very well because of the contrast you were able to achieve. But this may work against you in other pics.

G'luck,

Thanks Salar for pointing out that tutorial! It's helped me for a few of my shots!

~S