Occasionally the photographic conditions shout black and white harking back to days of photographic film. Although it was a long time ago for me, I can still see how colours translate into monochrome and how contrast can to be enhanced with filters.
For example, deep blue skies with fluffy clouds are great for black and white photography. In the film days a classic red filter might have been used to gain extra contrast, turning the blue sky towards black, making the white clouds stand out, adding to the overall drama of a scene.
In today’s digital environment it is down to the software to simulate this impact, either in the camera itself, or with external applications - there are many options. Of course, the black and white purists would say this is not the same as using film and I would tend to agree, but I doubt I will ever return to chemical processing.
When I saw the following scenes along Combs Lane, I immediately thought black and white making the conversion later in Adobe Photoshop using a red filter mix:
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