CONVERT TO MONO

Moody skies, swirling seas, craggy rocks these features are all crying out for a punchy monochrome conversion. Black and white helps to emphasize strong shapes, textures and patterns (like the sand patterns in tip 3), so it’s the ideal look for many sea scenes. out-of-season colours can often be muted and subtle, so ask yourself whether they’re really necessary at all to the success of the image. Most photographers have their own preferred method of mono conversion. We favour nik’s free (albeit no longer supported) silver efex pro photoshop plug-in (www.google.com/nikcollection).