Digital BW, The Print

These sound like good books...back to Amazon!

But IMO 75% of the posts on this Forum seem more to suggest education
in NON-technical aspects of B&W, most especially
"pre-visualization"...a skill that's almost never mentioned on digital
forums...there's a blind spot. 

This blind spot is an obstacle to progress when we forget about the
photograph and forgo personal visual skill development and become
obsessed with monitor calibration and soft proofing. 

It probably has to do with the derivative post-card tendencies of the
"fine" photos we see most often online: minds occupied with technique
rather than eyes and heart involved in images. 


---  "Digital Black and White Photography: A Step by Step Guide to 
> Creating Perfect Photos", by John Beadsworth. I use this book all
the time. It is a very good 
> "how to" on digital black and white. I also have Eddie Ephraums'
book which is a good 
> reminder to keep it simple.
>