A Sign in Black and White

This shot I took with my point and shoot in its monochrome setting:

ISO 400 9.3mm f/4.5 1/80

It is unedited.  Here is an edited version:

ISO 400 9.3mm f/4.5 1/80

I did some cropping and also darkened the image.  How would you have edited differently?

Cheers!

 

Landscape Photography with a point and shoot camera

I have two photos for comparison in this post.  I took both with my new point and shoot camera.  I did not use a tripod.  Neither photo has any post-editing aside from scaling the images.  The first was taken in “vivid” mode, an internal to the camera color boost:

ISO 100 4.3mm f/8 1/200

This next one was taken in “monochrome”

ISO 100 4.3mm f/8 1/200

Do you prefer one photo over the other?

Cheers!