There are many people out there who are straight out of the camera people. They don't want to touch what comes off their memory card. It is what it is. That is not usually the way it turns out for me. I figure that your DSLR or point and shoot is already processing your image to a certain extent so why shouldn't I take that one or two steps further and get what looks good to my eyes. This photo is an example of how I treat most black and white shots. You can get the high contrast look a number of different ways. One way is to duplicate layer in photo shop and then set the new layer to overlay. From there, convert it to black and white and adjust the opacity of the top layer until it looks good. What I usually do is use a plug-in called Color Efex Pro and there is a dynamic contrast filter that I apply during the conversion. My overall photographic post-producing philosophy is make whatever looks good to you.
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