B&W Photography
 

What are the things which need to be kept in mind which capturing B&W Photography?

A good tonal range from black to white (without the highlights being blown).

that pretty much covers it.
what's everyone's favorite method to convert to b&w?
i use lightroom. instead of hitting the b&w button i move the saturation slider all the way down to 0. then i can adjust the white balance and tint sliders to get different tones.

I generally shoot in RAW and convert and adjust with Affinity Photo - it has a good real-time, full screen converter. I sometimes convert to JPG and use Silver Efex Pro 2 (it's a free download as part of the Nik collection).

I mostly use Lightroom as well. I have a number of presets that I've created from studying the "film" presets in Nik Silver Efex to simulate range of B&W films inc Pan F, APX Pro, Ilford Delta, Kodak Tmax (probably my favourite for street photography) FP4, Plus X, HP5, Tri X plus a few of my own cooking which I call Landscape, Portrait & Portrait Contrasty

I still use Silver Efex (usually from Photoshop) but I think you can go straight from RAW without having to create a jpg - you certainly can from Lightroom & it returns a tiff file

nik is a great plugin for photoshop. i like their color efex filters, haven't used silver efex much because i convert my photos to b&w in lightroom.

I found this convincing.

I tend to hit the B&W button in Lightroom and use the sliders. Sometimes use the B&W gradient in Elements.

Thanks for your suggestion :)

My editor of choice is DXO Labs, it is vastly improved since it became Lab and gives good mono as well as colour images.
Charles.

This is something which I came to know about. Will try it out along with various features in it.

I use DXO for all my Canon images (but it can only edit Fuji images if shot as jpegs then uploaded to my computer and saved as tiffs.)
I used to use lightroom but it is not as good as DXO, I still have elements but rarely use it.
DXO also gives great mono processing as well.
Charles.

Thanks for the information Charles. Glad to know about it in detail!