Starting to Feel The Black and White Pull

I've been shooting and editing to black and white almost exclusively since before Christmas and since the beginning of the New Year I've been shooting with a monochrome view through the live view of my camera.

I convert those images to a black and white preset when importing the files in to Lightroom, in order that I don't get distracted by the colour RAW image at any point of taking a photograph.

It starting to feel like I'm starting to get somewhere slowly with how I want my woodland images to look and feel and this has come about from trial and error, either through the viewfinder or once imported into LR.

It's a strange thing, but when I'm out with the camera now, I'm looking for those tones and trying to envisage how I will process the image, before pressing the shutter button.

I definitely prefer the darker, moodier look of black and white and that's how I want to portray what I'm seeing when I'm out and about. I'm trying to shoot more under exposed to be able to work with the shadows and highlights as I want, to give me the look I'm after.

So far, so good. For the first time in a while I've started to feel as if I'm shooting and editing how I want my photographs to look... and that can't be a bad thing can it?!