Black and white can be a great choice for an image particularly if your image is high contrast.

Best practice is to shoot in color and then convert to black and white. This gives you more control over how each color is interpreted in grayscale than if you use the black and white setting on your camera or cameraphone.

There are three ways to convert your images to black and white in the Lightroom Photoshop App:
1. Profiles
2. Presets
3. B&W mix in the color settings

  • Profiles
  • Presets
  • B & W Mixer

In Lightroom Classic, there are two ways to convert your images to B&W.

For both, select black and white from the top right of the basic panel.

Profiles:
Select the dropdown menu next to Profile and then browse.

B/W Mixer:
Select B & W from the menu list, two items below basic.

Shoot 2 photos of objects of different colors.

  • Photo 1 should have even light ( no extremely bright and dark areas which is low contrast)
  • Photo 2 should have light coming from the side producing shadows.

For each photo make 2 B+W conversions Upload to flickr CW5

In open lab pick the best conversion and original and post discussing why you chose them. Student post/lab/lab5 BW conversion