Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Trees from Orchards to Branches to a Leaf

I love the texture of old tree trunks.

http://ceenphotography.com/2013/10/23/cees-black-white-challenge-trees-from-orchards-to-branches-to-a-leaf/

Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Close Ups/Macros

I just found this photo challenge. Black and white is challenging in the digital photography world. Traditional film b&w photography used a special type of film to enhance the contrast. I’m sure we all thought that colorizing old classic movies was a fun idea, but the execution wasn’t as cool as we hoped, because b&w really is a completely different medium from color. To get a somewhat close effect of true b&w, I bumped up both the contrast and saturation on this to the maximum before applying grayscale.

http://www.ceephotography.com/2013/10/09/cees-black-white-challenge-close-upsmacros/