In the last post I showed how switching to black and white eliminates the problem of featureless skies. There is another trick that you can use particularly when the sky is a flat blue and you are photographing modern architecture ... Switch your white balance to Tungsten. It will give the pictures a decidedly futuristic feel.

The pictures below are the same photos as those in Part 1 the only difference being that the colour has been retained and the white balance adjusted to Tungsten. This is the advantage of shooting in RAW format. If you shoot in RAW (or RAW + JPG) it keeps all of the colour and white balance information even if you are shooting black and white. The B&W JPG's in part one were generated in camera at the same time as the RAW files and used unchanged. The pics below were converted from RAW to JPG in Photoshop. The tungsten white balance was applied in camera.

In the final pic you'll see the effect of both options compared to the shot as it would have been if no adjustments had been made in camera.