More Black and White and Shades of Gray
In years of film photography, and, in my years of doing digital photography, I'be learned that "manipulating" images has been around just about from "day one".
Ansel Adams, probably the greatest and most acclaimed photographers of all time, long before the age of the "digital darkroom" (i.e. Photoshop), manipulated his negatives in the traditional darkroom by doing what is known as "dodging" = lightening and "burning = darkening) before printing from them.
Heaven knows what Adams would have done with a computer and any image-editing software.
Color photos when digitized, are comprised of literally millions of colors while black and white (grayscale) … of 256 shades or tones ranging from solid white to solid black.
So, if I start with an image composed of millions of colors (each tonal gradation representing a color, a tint or shade of a pure color), I can, in the digital darkroom, desaturate any/all parts of the image until i reduce it to the 256 grayscale tones, OR, I can see what 257, 258 … 601, etc. colors looks like, or, I believe more accurately … FEELS like.
None of my black and white photos begin as such … they're all full color, and, many of them, although they "look" black and white …are almost-but-not-quite.
Enough of the technical … here's a picture.
A Rocky Mountain Gorge
© A. Mac/A.G.
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Climb on.
Gorgeous!
Gorgeous!
You're quite appealing yourself.
Oh, you mean the photo … oh … well. I stand by my response nevertheless.
Still lots of room on the gorge cliff … climb on.
And then, good night.