Family in Black and White

Here is the second lot of shots from my photoshoot on the weekend.  These are the shots I chose to process in Black and White.  It's not always easy to decide which way to go when processing a shot.  Many photographs can look great in any number of styles.  My process of making that choice tends to lie in what I see when I first open the raw file.  I try to start off with an idea of what attracts me to the photo.   I then try to figure out the best way to accentuate that feature.  To give an example, on the first shot posted here (the one above this text) my favorite part of the shot was his huge beautiful eyes.  I really wanted them sharp with a lot of contrast when I looked at the raw shot.  My B&W shots usually have very high contrast and I can really pull the features I want to the forground without making the rest of the shot look uneven.  The result in my eyes at least is usually an interesting photograph.  Though it isn't always to everyones taste  it tends to just be how I see the shot.  I would love to some time have a few of us photographers take the same shot and each process it in our own style to see what different final products we end with.  I imagine that the results would be very cool and very unique.  I'll post some of my colour shots in the next day or two so you can see the difference a little colour can make.

Dan