I used to shoot black and white almost exclusively when it was film. Also had the habit of not cropping my photos, even printing the border around the negative to prove the shot was composed in camera. Now that I have been shooting digital, photos are always presented in color. And typically, only when shooting sports stuff, do I crop. (You just don’t have time to compose when you’re shooting sports.) I’m not sure why I never felt quite right about post-processing images as black and white. Perhaps putting black and white film into my camera was a choice, and it certainly influenced the pictures I took. There was also something to be said for only having thirty-six exposures.

Is the final image the only thing that matters?