The inclusion of foreground subject matter allowed me to emphasize contrast between the following areas within the scene: In the case of the photo at the top of this post I was careful to position myself to emphasize important foreground, mid ground and background elements within the frame. The icebergs are huge, some of them the size of large city buildings, and often so crowded together that it can be difficult to achieve a sense of scale and three dimensional space in the photos you make. It's also vast and quite difficult to photograph. The Ilulissat Icefjord is magnificent and the colors produced by the midnight sun can be quite surreal. This photo was made during an overnight hike I undertook from around 9pm till about 5am the following morning. I spent around a week in Western Greenland, most of it in the tourist town of Ilulissat, on the edge of Disko Bay and the Ilulissat Icefjord. Greenland is a wild and remote country, but it's also very beautiful and, under the midnight sun, the landscapes of Greenland are absolutely epic. Photographing under the midnight sun does introduce some potential difficulties, one of which is achieving the most appropriate color balance. That’s one example where, rather than trying to neutralize the color of the light, a better image will likely result by accurately recording or even amplifying the color balance of the scene in question. However, as is the case with sunset photos, many images benefit from the emotionally transforming color of light.

Recording colors as neutral as possible, without any color cast, is often considered important and white balance settings are adjusted, in camera, to allow you to achieve neutral color balance.

Balance in photography