Lets turn the way-back machine to March 19th 2000.  Almost 10 years ago.  I wanted to see what sort of photos I had from my trip to Switzerland and I ran across this set of 4 photos looking out over Lake Zurich.  This set has everything going against it.

I used a 1.3 MP point and [...]

This is how I quickly figure out which of my photos will make good Black and White photos using Adobe Lightroom.  I select the photos from the session and make a new collection.  I set the collection to make virtual copies.  Then I select those virtual copies and apply the grayscale preset to them.

There are so many movies that show high-tech video and photography capabilities.  You see an image taken from a low resolution black and while ATM video camera.  They will take that image and not only “enhance” it to be able to read the license place that only took up 4 pixels on the screen but [...]

This shows how to adjust images in Adobe Camera RAW that will later be stitched into a panorama.

If you shoot RAW and take a sequence of images to be stitched into a panorama, you should do all of your color balancing and tweaking before you perform the stitch.  Once you perform the stitch, you can do some of the color balancing, but you lose the flexibility you have with the RAW format. [...]