The Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 2 Book for Digital Photographers

Chapter 9. Gorgeous B&W: Converting from Color to Black and White

Exposure: 1/125

Focal Length: 90mm

Aperture Value: ƒ/2.8

I don’t know many photographers who don’t just love black and white. Well, actually the color black. You see, once you become a serious photographer, you want to sell your prints. Of course, once that happens once or twice, you’re no longer satisfied with what you sold your first prints for, so now you have to find a way to charge more. But here’s the catch: you can’t just sell the same prints and charge more, right? You’d have to shoot new stuff, better stuff, in fact better stuff than you can actually shoot, which is tough, because ...