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Mitten Monuments, May 2010” Black & white, or monochrome photography, is alive and well these days. Surprisingly there are a number of young people like my grandson who use vintage roll film cameras and silver-based film to make silver prints in the darkroom. But, by far, the greatest number of B&W images are made through the conversion of digital color files to B&W files. There are a number of software programs that facilitate this conversion like Silver Effects Pro II, many of which do a credible job, and which I have used in the past. Amazingly, my preferred method is Lightroom Classic for reasons that I will soon explain. In general, the problem with commercial conversion sof...

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