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In an earlier article “Black & White Image-making in the Digital Age, I listed six of my principles for selecting the best candidates for B&W conversion from a digital image library. This may not seem important or necessary to those photographers who have little experience working in monochrome media. However, the fact is that what looks good in color rarely works well in B&W without knowing how different the same composition can look between the two media. 
If the end goal is to create fine B&W images, this knowledge will save many hours of wasted effort when selecting subjects to photograph, and ultimately when selecting images...

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