Monochrome Conversions
Over the past few days, I've been having a conversation in a photography forum about how to shoot monochrome images. More specifically, someone had asked how to better utilize the in-camera color filters to get darkened skies. She was having difficulty seeing much of a difference between images shot without a filter and images shot with a filter. It just so happens that I spent some time running some experiments pertaining to this topic a couple of years ago so I had quite a bit of useful advice. This photographer explained that the skies were hazy and most of the scene was green foliage but that she could not see much of a difference between images shot without any in-camera color filters and those shot with a red in-camera filter. Now she was wondering if she was doing something wrong or wondering if a true physical filter on the lens would be better. I was the first in this forum to respond to her. I explained that hazy conditions are lousy for getting darkened skies in m