Black and White Photos for Fishing

I enjoy black and white photos. They are especially interesting for architecture, documentary photography and street photography. In color photos, the errant glare, flare and overexposed elements of photos are distracting at times. 

It's sometimes said that "serious photographers" shoot photos in black and white. Black and white format is often used for fine art photography. A short walk through the photography section of almost any museum will reveal monochrome and other photos sans colors. 

A quick Google search will reveal some fantastic black and white photos for every genre. I could spend all afternoon going down the black and white photography rabbit hole. Leica even makes a camera that only captures digital photos in black and white format.

But does black and white format work for fishing photos? 

I took a quick attempt at converting a compressed photo I posted to Facebook a few weeks ago and converted it to black and white using the rudimentary tool provided in Windows. A serious attempt at doing this would require using Photoshop, Lightroom, or other similar software with the full size, non-compressed photograph in Jpeg or RAW. Using the Raw format would probably work best.

Anyway, here's my "fun" photo for today.

I can't say that I'm in love with it, but for an occasional carp fishing photo here and there, I think it's a nice change of pace. Punching up the contrast helps sharpen the photo and makes it more interesting for me than a straight Windows filter.