Go B&W In Winter - Outdoor Photographer | OutdoorPhotographer.com

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Go B&W In Winter
More than just a solution for bleak scenery, converting your images to black-and-white can give winter landscapes and sports action tremendous impact
Text And Photography By Adam Barker
Labels: How-To, Camera Technique, Black & White

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Black-and-white adds a fine-art impact to nature photographs, and the unique properties of winter are especially exciting for beautiful monochromatic photos and prints.
Winter is a wondrous season for photographers, with its own unique challenges and triumphs. For many of us, the landscape changes shape and character entirely, covered in a blanket of Mother Nature’s finest frozen concoction. While there are certainly fleeting moments of inspiring color, winter, it seems, is a season well suited to monochrome imagery. "

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