I want better Black & White Portraits

Purest Light Photography

I currently have a Sony dSLR350x but I am not getting the black and white portraits I would like. I do mostly Natural Light Portraits of children and babies and my black & whites always seem flat and dull. I'm looking for something deeper. I have used the black and white setting on my camera but I prefer to use color and change it in afterwords. Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

ChatKat

Nik Filters
I like Nik Filters - I used Color Efx - a photoshop or lightroom plug in. They have one called Silver EFX which I am thinking about adding to my collection. i looked at it at a convention and it allows you to change small areas of an image.

Purest Light Photography

Thank you
Thank you so much where do I find that?

ChatKat wrote:

I like Nik Filters - I used Color Efx - a photoshop or lightroom plug in. They have one called Silver EFX which I am thinking about adding to my collection. i looked at it at a convention and it allows you to change small areas of an image.

Art Scott

are you shooting raw or jpg???


What Post processing software do you use??


Nik Color Efex ..........