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The elegant Design by Fire website has posted a guide to converting colour images to black and white, using a technique created by the photographer Greg Gorman (found via Still Journal):

“Gorman has gone digital in the past few years. Recently, he has been sharing his knowledge with many in the photography world. In this case, as you probably know, digital cameras capture light with red, green and blue sensors. It is impossible to shoot digital in black and white, like it is in film. Gorman had been lamenting this fact over dinner almost a year and a half ago, as most of his favorite work is in black and white. Rather than do nothing about it though, Gorman developed this conversion technique, which in all of my time working on Photoshop is easily the best I’ve seen for creating black and white photos.”

Website: Design by Fire - Santorini in black & white

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