
It became super addicting to play around with Silver Efex to the point where sometimes I’d probably spend a little too much time having fun creating multiple black and white variants of my images.

I found myself falling in love with the new presets and creating some of my own. When I got my hands on an early release of Nik Software’s Silver Efex Pro 2, I went nuts with it. I created this duotone of one of my favorite landscape shots. Using the 034 Yellowed 2 Preset as a starting point, Now my portfolio on Zenfolio even has some black and white images in it – something I thought I’d never do.

In fact, in some cases even saved some bad shots with it.

Over time I fell in love with Silver Efex Pro and found myself trying it out on various photos and I started to like it more and more. In my first review of Silver Efex Pro 1, I mentioned that “black and white photography isn’t really my thing” but I went on to say it was a fun product. Photo Copyright © Ron Martinsen – All Rights Reserved Silver Efex Pro 2 offers many great new presets like 032 Film Noir 3 shown above
