They call me the searcher

Kit: Nikon18-200mm Lens on Nikon D5100


I have been looking for a better way to process black and white images for a while now, maybe ever since I stopped shooting black and white film. I have found getting inky black has been elusive.

I can across a video on YouTube by Serge Ramelli saying Do this! if you want some Ansel Adam Black and White Style. Well I had to click on that and give it a shot. I do like the results so far.

I have reedited these images and do like them better than my original edits.

Here are links to the some of  original posts:

Back to black and white FAIL

Back to BLACK and white



 

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