Basic black and white adjustments in your digital darkroom
Black and white images are rarely perfect straight from the camera. If you’ve ever used your camera’s black and white modes hoping for some magical monochrome transformation, you’ll probably have come away disappointed. Black and white imagery relies on light and contrast… and a degree of exaggeration. Sometimes real-world scenes don’t provide the tonal depth and drama that a black and white rendering needs, and very often images will only come alive in the darkroom, or in its modern digital replacement, your image editor.
