Since I love this NF-SOOC challenge and I've moved back to where I studied photography at university, I have decided to go monotone as well. I started out in B&W so it seems appropriate.
This month of SOOC is truly very good for me since I will be working on both my compositional skills (cropping with my feet) and my exposure skills. I see that I need to work with getting better tones in those ivy leaves, they just much too blown out.
Sounds like a good challenge for you- and thanks to digital you'll be able to rework the shots when you decide how to "fix" them. Good shadows on this one but yes, the grays are definitely missing.
Truly.appreciate the input, I become lazy with pre-visualizing my b&w work. One of the reasons for playing along with this challenge is make myself pay attention to the details, again
@joysabin I couldn’t agree more. This challenge forces us to pay attention to the details at the time of exposure. There is nothing wrong with post processing (as Ansel Adams himself said “The negative is the score, the print is the performance.” ) but digital makes us lazy because we always know we can “fix it in post”. This challenge is a necessary exercise in the basics. I look forward to following your posts.
Truly.appreciate the input, I become lazy with pre-visualizing my b&w work. One of the reasons for playing along with this challenge is make myself pay attention to the details, again