Most of the old houses that are open in Charleston have limited light sources. In this case it was almost all ambient light from outside. Which is great for me, it’s what I like to shoot.

When shooting monochrome I tend to rely on DxO Silver Efex for the conversion and finishing of the photos. It has become the standard for B&W photography.

Recently I purchased a new PC to maybe better deal with the combination of Windows 11 and Adobe (not really a big help though). What I did not do was reinstall all my custom B&W presets for Silver Efex. It’s back to basics now, but a good thing since the software has been updated substantially over time. New custom ones will be better, I hope.

There’s no better place to work with B&W than the style  I like with the Charleston homes.  Silver Efex also is well integrated with the DxO Photolab7 editor. DxO in general works better with many RAW files than Lightroom since they are the company that creates and provides camera/lens/RAW data and software to all the other (adobe included) image vendors.

The back rooms in the Akin-Rhett House, Charleston, SC.