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have a look at how you can change what bits are black and white using the lightroom conversion, you can alter how say all the reds in your image appear, the blues etc. Getting a properly developed digital B&W is a proper art
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not really. What you do in lightroom changing the mix etc is just like using colour filters on an enlarger to produce the final print. Granted, composing a shot to produce a good B&W, you need a good mix of contrasts, and textures in your composition - and this comes with time.
just found this too -
http://layersmagazine.com/create-stunning-black-and-white-images-in-lightroom.html
well after using LR now for at least 2 year i never noticed that black n white button
cheers mate, just had a bit play with it there, class :-D