What I like the most about black and white photography is the ability to transform the mood of a scene. It's a fine Spring day, but the dense early morning mistiness that covers the Purbeck Hills in Dorset refuses to lift. I try to pierce the strong haze with the use of a polarising filter, but to no real effect.
Instead, I create a quality that wasn't there at the time by converting the picture to mono; boosting contrast; adding some brutal burning-in, and finally a large dollop of film grain.
24-70mm f/2.8 AF-S Nikkor. 1/400 second at f/5.6. Matrix metering. Mono conversion in Silver Efex Pro 2. ISO 50
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