Digital BW, The Print

Bob Frost writes:

> Because they are a form of artistic interpretation of a scene that can
> provide pleasing results sometimes, as can other monochrome tonings, or
> color distortions.

But you said you gave up shooting B&W films 40 years ago.  Does that
mean that you did without B&W for that period, or what?

B&W is not the real world; anyone who shoots or prints in B&W is making
a deliberate choice to put an artistic spin of sorts on an image.  I use
black and white mainly when color would distract from the point of the
photograph.

Street scenes often look best in black and white: if an unimportant
person in a street scene is wearing a day-glo orange jacket, and the
image is in color, his jacket will distract tremendously from the
important content of the image, but if if the image is in B&W, only the
forms in the image will be visible, so it won't matter.