Black And White Photography - [5 things why B&W photography will make you a BETTER photographer]

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Sam Thompson:

You'll know that I shoot 95% of my images with a view to publish in B&W. I do make an occasional excursion into the world of colour. I think that this is due to growing up with FP4 and my own darkroom. When I bought my PEN-F, I fell in love with B&W again. I shoot in raw but have the dial on the front turned to mono so that I compose in B&W. I later convert my raw using Lightroom and Silver Efex Pro2. I have a couple of tips for the mono conversion. I'm assuming you're using Lightroom and have clicked the mono button at the top right of the tools on the right hand side. Firstly, use the colour temperature slider and see the effect it has on the image; especially for portraits it has a huge effect on the relative tone of the skin. Secondly, do use the various colour sliders to change the relative grey tonal range of each colour as this helps to create differential tone for colours that look the same when converted to B&W