Model :: buster

Setting:  A chilly, windy late afternoon in the middle of February, 2003.
Location:  North Table Top Mountain outside of Golden, Colorado (images 1, 3, 4).  
Technical details:  These originally color images were whacked in photoshop.  A new adjustment layer of the "Channel Mixer" type was created, and the monochrome dialog box was check.  Then, each RGB channel was manipulated for tonal quality.  The image was flattened, and then in some cases a new adjustment layer was created for levels, where I'd apply a linear gradient mask to reduce the contrast between ground and  sky (the same effect that film photographers achieve with a neutral density filter).  Finally, the "diffuse glow" filter was applied.