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Monsoon Mono
Black and white with the weather still in it
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- 10 looks, not one filter
- Desktop .xmp and mobile .dng in the same download
- Works on the free Lightroom mobile app
- Personal and commercial licence on your own photographs
What this pack does
Converting to black and white by pulling saturation to zero gives you grey, not monochrome. Everything lands in the middle and fog, which is almost entirely middle, turns to porridge.
Monsoon Mono runs an S-curve after the conversion. The quarter tone drops hard, the three-quarter tone lifts, and the extreme ends are held back from pure black and pure white so a print still has somewhere to go.
The result keeps separation in weather. Mist stays readable against a treeline, rain stays visible against a wall, and a face under an overcast sky keeps its modelling instead of flattening out.
Looks included
- 01Mono 01 Soft
- 02Mono 02 Hard
- 03Mono 03 Flat
- 04Mono 04 Deep
- 05Mono 05 Haze
- +5 further variants in the download
Also on the rack
All 10 packs
Kerala Gold
Afternoon light the way it actually felt, not the way the sensor recorded it
- Travel
- Street
- Architecture
Haldi
Built for ceremony colour, where every frame is already saturated before you touch it
- Wedding
- Portrait
- Events
Night Bazaar
For mixed artificial light, where nothing in the frame agrees on what white is
- Street
- Night
- Travel