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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 102031" data-attributes="member: 9240"><p>There are folks here who will give you better portrait advice than I ever could, but for Black and White, my advice is always to make a good color photograph first, and then worry about converting.  The simple act of desaturating a color image is not always the best method for converting.  I love using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2 to do my conversions as they give you ultimate flexibility in B&W manipulation.  You can download a 15 day free trial when you're ready to use it.  Another method is to stack layers in Photoshop (or Elements) and manipulate the Tint & Hue in a layer behind the Saturation layer (with saturation set to -100%) to act as a color filter would while shooting in Black & White.</p></blockquote><p></p>