I never thought that so many people would like my monochrome photographs, but it turns out that many family members and friends like them.  Over the last few years of taking photographs, I have come to realize that some photographs just render better in one monochromatic form or another than in colour.  Most of the time when I post a monochrome photograph it was intended that way from when I pressed the shutter button, but sometimes the coloured version just does not do the scene justice and rendering it in black and white or another form of monochrome like sepia, usually brings out more tonal differentiation and character from the image.

When I used the Canon PowerShot S5, there was a dedicated mode for these types of photographs, and I used it rather than converting after, mainly because, as I have mentioned, I take certain scenes with the full intention of them being black and white or sepia.  When I moved on to an SLR, the Canon Digital Rebel T1i does not have that feature, which is probably a good thing  🙂  Using RAW mode shooting I have found that I get a lot more processing ability, some people call this editing, but I look at it as getting more out of the photograph, the information is there, I’m not adding or removing, just revealing.

Of the four monochromes below, only two were intended as monochromes, the other two just rendered better that way  🙂  Click on them to see them at the site.

Although not a true sepia, I put this one in that category because, well, I had nowhere else to put it I suppose. I used one of those Lightroom presets and did some exposure and fill light adjustments.

This building I will have to revisit another day, there were just way too many vehicles around for a nice wider shot, but the building intrigued me enough that I think this worth posting up.

Some things attract your attention and trying to convey that in a photograph can be… difficult, at least for me.  This bird was “riding the waves”, standing on that branch and just bobbing and weaving with the rise and fall of the incoming waves.

And finally, this scene I had done in a previous post on Georgetown, Guyana.  It is a familiar scene to anyone who has driven along the Clive Lloyd Drive, its been there since I was a little boy, a quaint little cottage amidst some palm trees, while the previous photograph was in colour, this one was taken with the monochrome idea and the result was quite nice.