There is something special about black and white landscape photography, it has a dramatic, powerful and timeless quality that sets it apart from its equivalent colour rendition.
Black and white photography requires seeing and appreciating the subject more in terms of shapes, textures and most importantly tonal qualities.
The importance of tone should not be under estimated, for example the colours mid red, mid green and mid blue when converted to black and white will all render as mid grey, so if these individual colours are alongside each other in your composition they will merge together and lose their individual identities in a black and white print.
I prefer to make my digital black and white conversions from the original raw file with each image being treated individually in Adobe Lightroom 3. I prefer not to use a preset or batch process command believing that each image requires a more considered approach to its black and white conversion.
All the above images have been taken on the Isle of Mull over the last year, hope you have enjoyed them. As always your comments are welcome.
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