clipped from www.ephotozine.com Digital black & white photography Many modern digital cameras have a series of mono modes in their advanced menu settings. These can be used if you want to be more creative with your photography. You may want to use them to illustrate a newsletter, add a sepia tone to give your picture an olde-worlde look or to copy documents and ensure the text stands out. The three options you'll often find include: Black & White: takes a black & white photograph comprising range of grey tones. Sepia: takes a picture with a range of brown tones. Document: A high contrast mode used to make text stand out. Landscapes suit black & white Black & white forces you to think differently and imagine colours. Here the red and green tones look almost identical in mono. Using the Channel Mixer has helped adjust the tones of this converted black & white so that the flower is lifted from the background.