Color Balance supplies harmony to an image. An image in which the tones work together, effectively supporting the image, can enhance its emotional appeal. Color balance is not always harmonious and can be used to evoke diverse feelings for effect.
I wonder why we see in colors. If Darwin was correct, I suppose that is because it offers us survival advantages. If you are color blind, your chance of running through a red light can well be higher than average, effectively raising your chances of spectacularly dying in a head-on collision smack in the middle of an intersection. There may well be bright red blood; a lot of it, everywhere, pulsating and shooting out of your body. Cars can catch fire and spew out intensely orange flames. Often times antifreeze liquid spills out on the ground, ad bright green may compliment the intense lack of balance created by red and orange. But, the horror or the crash may not need any colors to enhance it. Those who stood at the sidewalk will not remember the intense orange of the flames, but how you got ejected out of the front window shield, like a rag doll, then almost in slow motion reached the ground face down, then a bounce or two. The audience didn't colors, really.
I am sure one can come up with compelling situation where color enhancement is what makes the picture. But, that would be a particularly a sad affair.
"Oh, that is pretty. Look at all the colors@#$!"
Then, that is about it. It is just another tool, kind of like a plug-in for a software. Balanced or not, it just doesn't play that much of a role in much of anything.
The only noticeable thing about this particular picture is the presence of many pretty colors.
Pentax K10D
DA* 50-135mm SDM
1/180 @ f/2.8
0 ev
ISO 200
RAW
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