Sunny weather = high contrast

[Singing snapper]

I've been taking advantage of the sunny weather by wandering in the rare sunshine we are having at the moment. The downside photographically is that this means few clouds in the sky so little interest in the sky and high contrast which doesn't work well in colour. So I took photos with a view of converting them to black and white in Silver Efex Pro 2.

Over the Afan valley close to my house:

Pentax 645D FA 33 - 55 at f/16 and 33mm 1/50 ISO 100


Cwmavon-bw by singingsnapper, on Flickr

Pentax 645D FA 120 f/4 macro at f/11 1/125 ISO 160


cwmavon-b&w by singingsnapper, on Flickr

Spent some time in Cardiff today where it was a glorious sunny day:

Pentax 645D FA 33 - 55 at f/16 1/50 ISO 160


It's-sunny-in-crdiff by singingsnapper, on Flickr

[markgozz]

I really like the second shot and there's no getting away from the fact that the quality of the images is first rate but I'm just not sure that the B&W conversion adds anything to the images .

Mark