I'd welcome comments/criticism on this image. In Photoshop, I'm cropping, then Image>Curves>Medium Contrast, then converting using USM(60/20/1) to punch up the contrast, then cleaning up the edges with Smart Sharpen(50/1/Gaussian). Then convert to B&W. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
Any suggestions on how to capture the original to get the best B&W conversion out of it?
First the original color, no editing
[Then the B&W conversion as noted above.
Thanks for any input,
FHPhotographer