Post your best Black and White Photo

[Kombi]

So hard to stay focused- pun not intended- on one style of photography.
Tried the B+W setting on my camera


EOS REBEL T2i
ISO 100
Exposure 1/160 sec
Aperture 7.1
Focal Length 28mm
Lens 24-105mm f/4L

will have to read up how to make the black 'pop' more

[ahab1372]

So hard to stay focused- pun not intended- on one style of photography.
will have to read up how to make the black 'pop' more

Nice picture Kombi.
Not that I'm an expert, but I would try levels and curves in post processing

Arnt

[Dr Croubie]

will have to read up how to make the black 'pop' more

This is the easiest thing you can do make B+W pictures look better:
If you shoot RAW, you can do it in DPP easily, otherwise you can do it in PS/GIMP.
Looking at a histogram with level curves, take the 'black point' up to the left side of the histogram, and take the 'white point' down to somewhere near the right side of the histogram. That way, your images is using the full range of greyscale available, from fully black, through every grey, to fully white, rather than just looking all grey and washed out.

(man, this is hard to explain without the aid of screenshots).
And normally a simple straight line on the curve doesn't look the best, try playing with the curve a bit until it looks good...