B&W never dies.

[Kellidascope82]

Beautiful!

[simplyjoed]

Sopons,
Nice shot. wonderful shades too. Can you share how you did it in PP. I like to do the same with one of my pic but it did not show the nice shades.
Thanks. I appreciate it.

JoeD

[sopons]

Originally Posted by mkinzie

i competely agree with you on the choice to convert it. without seeing the original color photo, i obviously cannot champion a favorite, but in B&W i can really appreciate the great high contrast, amazing texture and details in the rocks. i especially like that the furthest rock is a simple silhouette-it leads your eyes to the horizon and then back again. great photo!

Thank you, I really appreciate the long and detailed comment like yours. Yes, contrast & texture in color pictures can't be compared to the B&W ones, and you don't really want to see the color version of this one...it's not comparable.

Originally Posted by Kellidascope82

Beautiful!

Thank you.

Originally Posted by simplyjoed

Sopons,
Nice shot. wonderful shades too. Can you share how you did it in PP. I like to do the same with one of my pic but it did not show the nice shades.
Thanks. I appreciate it.

JoeD

JoeD, Thank you for your comment. I usually succeed more in converting pictures to BW from color, if the pictures are overexposed. Like this one, It was at least one stop higher than my camera suggestion. The point I am getting at is that I wanted the BW picture of this one, and I wanted the details in the rock, so I overexposed the sky, and fixed that later with gradient tool in Lightroom. It's much easier for me that way. From there, it's just contrast/light and some small details in the picture that I added for this picture. I am not sure if that is helpful, but if you still have a question, please let me know. I am not the expert, but I will try to help as much as I can.

[Tryfan67]

This shot is so simple yet so interesting, its calming it makes you feel relaxed. I love B & W photography. Thanks for sharing this beautiful image.