The picture below is another one of my attempts at converting a colour digital file to b+w. A previous attempt on an earlier post is here. These pictures of the details of the landscape were made whilst I was on a poodlewalk in the local Waitpinga bushland in the southern Fleurieu Peninsula of South Australia.
These b+w conversions haven't been successful using an old digital camera and I've never been able to even approach the rich tonality that Sebastian Salgado achieved with his impressive b+w Kuwait photos. One response has been to return to using b+w film.
In both cases my intimate bushland pictures were made with a very old Sony NEX-7 digital camera (2011), a modern Voigtlander closeup adaptor, and a vintage Leica M 35mm Summicron f.2.0 lens (1960s). This combination is trying to keep my old photographic equipment going rather than discarding it.