Still experimenting with monochrome. Notice I said "monochrome" and not black and white. Sure as I say black and white, someone is gonna say, "well...I see very little black or white, humph!"
Oh well, each to his own. It is all subjective as they say. Anyhow, I was displeased with the contrast and general overall appearance of the photographs that I have taken so far and still I have a few reservations about them. Of course the more I work with it, monochorme that is, the better they, my photographs, will get...hopefully.

Anyhow here are a couple more but these taken with the use of a yellow filter, well not actually but an electronic one. The yellow filter is supposed to make blue skies look more natural and white clouds a bit clearer. So with the latter being considered, I wondered how well would the yellow work with brighter shades such as the white in flowers or in the accenting of highlights. Assuming that some of us may consider clouds to have a lot of white in them, but we all know what assuming gets us.

Anyway I seem to like the effect the filter gives a bit better than without it. Though the whites are almost blown in some places, second image, they still held up much better than in some of my images before using the yellow filter mode in the 30D and I noticed that the textures and shadows look much better than before too.

Now that I think of it, it would probably have been better to have done before and after shots but time was limited when I took these and as they say, "hindsight is 20/20."

Lame Ol'Honeysuckle again, but I like Honeysuckles
EOS 30D
Manual mode/hand held/ EOS yellow filtering
1/250 sec. @ f/14 ISO 400
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro
Canon 430EX Speedlite @ -2/3

Blackberry Blossom
EOS 30D
Manual mode/hand held/ EOS yellow filtering
1/250 sec. @ f/11 ISO 400
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro
Canon 430EX Speedlite @ -2/3