Playing with gray scale conversion to try and achieve Ansel Adams style of Black and White. Unfortunately the gray scale conversions of our time are “one-button-and-done” approaches which yield muddy, gray and white images. What happened to the black? Or the kiche soft light approach which yields all white and only up to 10% gray, can you call that black and white? How is our photographical society getting away with “black and white” images with absolutely no black or white, but a mere medium gray?

How did I do it?
www.EverydayHDR.com

Olympus E-30
14-54 mm Zuiko Lens

5 Exposures @ f/8.0
1/200 sec +/-2 EV

Processed in Photomatix
Post Processed in Adobe CS5