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There are a couple ways to accomplish this. The simplest is to have a photo lab print your color original as a black & white image. But nearly all digital cameras have a setting to create black & white photos directly in the camera. Check your camera's manual for a "monochrome" or "bw" setting.
If you have a compact digital camera, changing to black & white mode causes your camera to display a black & white version of the scene you are framing right on the LCD monitor. This is a great advantage to learning to "see" black & white images. If you have an SLR, you have to take the photo first and then play it back to compare the monochrome version to the original color subject.
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