Originally posted by Katmandude Does the community recommend changing the WB settings to follow weather and luminosity to the letter? Or do you guys have confidence in the auto settings? ( appart from that i'm in full manual)
I assume you're talking about normal photography, without any kind of filters? In that case auto WB should be okay. The only times you really should change it is for tungsten (light coming from lightbulbs, like indoors or at night). You can also try CTE to bring out dominant colours, like in sunset scenarios. But choosing the wb for your scene gives you the most control over your images. If you shoot raw, you can manipulate white balance very precisely in raw converter software, without losing any quality.
If you shoot jpeg, you can also change the colour settings in the info menu. You can choose bright, vibrant, film reversal.. any of those should bring out colours more than "natural." WB affects the orange/blue and green/pink axis of the colours. The jpeg setting actually affects individual colours and colour saturation, so thats what you want if you want specific colours to be stronger
But red colours can be a bit problematic anyway, a lot of users have expressed that they don't like the way digital sensors render red colour, it often has a pink or purple tint.