Frequent visitors to this photo blog know how much I like shooting black and white landscapes from late fall through early spring, when the scenery is pretty monochromatic anyway. This is never more true than right after a snowfall. In between snow squalls today, I took my camera down to the river to see what I might find. It's been several weeks since I've had the chance to take landscape photographs, and was keen on doing so if the weather would cooperate. The sun poked through the clouds a few times, and it was bright enough that I had the sharp contrast I like to convert images to black and white.
Whether you use auto-levels, adjust the sliders in the levels window, or set your black and white points, make sure your images have the full range of contrast from dark blacks to bright whites before opening the channel mixer window and converting to black and white. Today was perfect, and I was quite pleased with several images from my outing.
