New on the blog: a confession — for years I only reached for black-and-white when a photo didn't work in color. Dull sky, distracting background, colors that clashed; monochrome was my fix, not my intention. It never quite felt right, because I was working backward.
That changed once I started studying photographers who chose black-and-white from the start: Ansel Adams, Nick Brandt, Art Wolfe. They weren't removing color. They were seeing without it from the beginning.
Read more about how to shoot and edit black & white photos in this blog post.