The reality is that you can always shoot in color and make these kinds of monochromatic conversions after the fact with Adobe Photoshop or your favorite digital imaging software.

“Color is descriptive. Black and white is interpretive.” — Elliott Erwitt. That quote by Elliott Erwitt summarizes my feeling about monochrome photographs, especially portraits.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.”—Stephen King

After several posts featuring images that I recovered from discs created by Kodak’s now defunct Photo CD system, I received several emails like this from readers as well as talented Denver photographer Matt Staver, wanting to know how I did it.

It’s the time of year when you might be thinking about what kind of present or stocking stuffer you might want as a gift to your favorite photographer or maybe even yourself.