Alright. Sorry it took me so long to get this up. I've been alternating between being swamped with work and playing outside in this wonderfully sunny and mild weather we've been having.
For those not in attendance, I gave a short overview at PhotoCamp on what I did to create some of the black and white shots from my trip to Sicily last year. I did a very rapid overview of what it takes to mimic black and white film in software using the DxO Film Pack, some B+W Photoshop actions I'd found, or my own hand-done methods. After that, I showed the original Photoshop files of several of my photographs, and went step-by-step through the combinations of masks and Curves/Levels adjustment layers to tweak the intensity and detail in different portions of the photos.
In my opinion, cameras should capture what you experience, not light. While the end result of my photographs doesn't correspond to the actual photos that fell on the CCD very well at all, it does a much better job capturing what I felt at that moment.