There is a current trend in snow sport photography to take colours and contrast to extremes to make the images more striking.
After looking at some of the photographs on my return to the UK I found that they often lacked any real focus, and although the scenery was stunning, often the mood wasn't even close to being captured.
As I tend to lean towards black and white photography I decided that converting some of my images, and then tweaking the contrast and colour conversion was a good place to start. As usual I used Lightroom5 for this process.
When it came around to choosing which images to pick for the black and white conversion, the strongest images often had either plenty of natural tone variation, or there was a colour variation that could be exploited later in the process. In particular it helped bring out the definition in the clouds and the snow, which all got a bit lost in the colour images.
