Over the following pages, you’ll find lots of useful information on how to transform your color images into beautiful blackand-white photos. But before we get stuck into ‘how’, it’s worth taking a moment to consider ‘why’. So ask yourself: what is the reason for removing color? It could be that the lack of color draws attention to other things like patterns and textures; or that a mono treatment gives the scene a calmness that would be difficult to convey in color; or that stripping out color enhances an expression or the play of light across the scene. Here are a few things that black-and-white tends to do better than color…