Digital capture has made the journey to black & white photography totally painless. No need for coloured filters, chemicals or even film! All you have to do is select the monochrome picture style for lovely out-of-camera mono pictures, and you don’t even have to switch on the computer.
But if shooting awesome monochrome pictures is that easy, you are probably wondering why we have allocated four pages to the subject. Well, it’s time to come clean and admit that while shooting monochrome is easy, to make the most of the medium you have to get your brain out of first gear.
Which format?
Let’s kick off with camera format. Set the camera to shoot raw, select monochrome and take a shot. The preview image will be
