Not exactly B&W but close...

[mswebb]

This is an HDR that I processed into cyanotype...

[Toe Knee"F"]

Looks pretty cool...How did you do the processing? Is it a photoshop thingy?

[mswebb]

The original photo was shot in RAW with the exposure on the horse. It was a fairly bright day so the sky got pretty much blown out.

Playing with the photo in Adobe LightRoom I saw that there was still some detail in the sky if I seriously cut back on the exposure. I made a duplicate of the original with the exposure dialed way back and tried some HDR software but with no luck so it was back to LightRoom. I used the brush tool with the exposure dropped back two stops and brushed the sky to bring back the detail. It took some playing with the get an invisible seem between the sky and the trees/horse but it wasn't too bad. A bit of curves and contrast and the image had the look of an HDR but included a subject that would not normally be used in HDR (because you need a still subject as much as possible).

The cyanotype was a single-click processing option in LightRoom and just needed a bit of contrast applied afterwards.

The vignetting is a two-level process in LightRoom.

That's about it.

Interesting way to save a blown photo.

[Toe Knee"F"]

Sweet! Thanks for sharing, this will come in handy.

[mswebb]

I've always liked your stuff. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with for this type of process.

[Fibonacci]

When I was taking photography in college we had to make cyanotypes. It is the same process that is still being used to make blueprints today. It doesn't look exactly like this; in cyanotype their are just two colors, blue and white, with a few shades in between. This actually looks more like a hand tinted black and white image but I understand Lightroom is going to call it what they want.
As for the composition, I like most of it, though the horse in the background is a bit bothersome. Also the vignetting is a bit heavy-handed. I'd back off a bit more if I were you.