The Leica M9 is not only known for its great color pics, it’s probably better known for its black and white images. I have to admit, the M9 does a phenomenal job of creating black and white pics. It’s hard to describe what it is but the M9 just has that extra touch when creating these type of images. I don’t routinely shoot in black and white while using the camera. I shoot in raw (uncompressed picture format) and then edit it with Niks Software Silver Efex Pro 2. If you like monochrome images, this is the software to purchase. I have owned just the aperture plugin and now own the Photoshop CS5 plugin and prefer having the Photoshop plugin because it just makes a new layer instead of altering the original pic like it does in Aperture.
Soon after purchasing my black M9 (I have not moved on to the M9-P) I traveled to Cleveland for a conference and on my way home I stopped and shot a few pics. This pic, originally in color was edited in Silver Efex Pro 2. Let me know what you think?
Contrasts—fluffy clouds in a crisp sky, ragged weeds against a metal pole, ground harboring a railroad track that will carry you far beyond the field. I appreciate this picture.
Rose, thanks for the nice comment!
You were inCleveland and didn’t let anyone know-shame
It was last year in October and i lectured at the supersaver, this a few people knew I was there :-).
some of the savers knew!!!!!!!!!!!