Experiments in monochrome

We're working on renovating our apartment and Annie had the idea of hanging up some black&white climbing shots for decoration. So far I haven't done any b&w shots but I browsed through my archive today and played around with some older unused images. Here are a few examples, hope you like them:

These shots were all done with my D90 and converted to black&white in DxO optics pro. For the motion blur I dialed in a slow shutterspeed (1/3 of a second or more I think), set my flash to rear curtain sync and pulled the camera upwards while taking the shot. (I put my SB600 on a monopod and held it close to the ground to get the light beneath the overhang)

The shots below were made on the Brauneck guidebook shoot, but I haven't been satisfied with the colour edits. I like the B&W versions, though.

The shots below are "genuine" B&W images, shot on my dad's old Pentax ME with ASA 400 film. I like the results, although it was pretty expensive getting them processed. (About 20€ for the roll...)

So that's it for today, I'll keep diging in my archives, who knows what I might find.

Cheers

Bruno