Eureka Springs Panorama

This is seven vertical pics stitched together. 

Field of view about 140 degrees.

The ink is black - The page is white

Together we learn 
To read and write.

(thanks to Three Dog Night)

We are firmly in the time of digital photography, 

but that doesn't mean that we have to give up on 

some of our favorite old things.

Such as Black and White photography. (B&W) 

Your camera may have a setting for B&W, but I like

to use a photo editing program. Why? Because, just 

like I did with B&W film, I want creative control.

In B&W film photography, we chose the film, the chemicals

for processing, the filters both for shooting and printing,

and often used the Zone System to keep it all in line.

In digital B&W, you want to be able to control how the colors

turn into B&W. PhotoShop and ACDSee allow you to saturate or

desaturate the intensity, contrast, filtering, etc... to end up 

with a final image that matches your mind's eye preconception.

Example:

 Came from this:

Left to the camera's B&W program, the green leaves and the red 

in the ground and the stump would have different contrast values.

I choose my own values and get the pic I previsualized. 

More examples:

Be sure to look up your program's help center online

to know how to use all the tools.

Happy B&W photography!