Hosta and Water Drop

Did a couple of attempts at black and white conversions today for the bw-fn-1 challenge. Not really sure how I feel about the results.

[Newbank Lass]

B and w images are v diff to colour I feel. More about textures, tones, subtleparts of an image. For me the water drop stands out and the lines on the leaves. For me it works well.

[Angela]

Lovely water droplet though the hosta looks odd-- sort of rusty?- without it's lovely green. Good to push the boundaries though!

[Debi 🐩]

Love all those lines leading to the water droplet nice shot

[Shepherdman's Wife]

Hosta without holes! Ours are being eaten by slugs!

[Joanne Diochon]

@shepherdmanswife speaking of slugs, http://365project.org/gardencat/this-and-that/2014-05-18,

the one in the B&W above is a big hosta with rather tough leaves and less popular with the snails than the smaller hostas with more tender leaves.

[Joanne Diochon]

@angelar this hosta does have some sort of splotches on the leaves that you can see faintly in the coloured photo but that really pop out and become more noticeable in the B&W conversion. It almost looks like I have added some sort of grunge splotches to this photo, but i haven't.

[Joanne Diochon]

@newbank @wearing0 thanks for your comments .

[Nick Cronin]

Clever pov and the shot works well in b&w