USE MONO PICTURE SETTINGS WITH RAW

If you have difficulty visualising how the scene in front of you will look in black and white, you can set up your camera to deliver monochrome results. This can be really helpful, as you can still capture all the data in a full-colour raw file, ready for editing, but see the shot in mono on your camera’s screen. Just make sure you shoot in raw format rather than JPEG, so you can still access all the colour channel data to make a precise mono conversion in your raw conversion software.

On a Nikon model, in the Photo Shooting menu, select Set Picture Control and choose Monochrome from the list. On a Canon camera, select the Picture Styles menu, and choose Monochrome (M) from the options. Other makes have similar options.