^ crackin' photo that. Did you convert to B&W from raw?
I shoot everything in Canon RAW now (sometimes RAW + JPEG). Apart from slowing down the frames/sec rate there's no reason not to shoot in RAW, you just lose too much potential if you don't.
Then I tweaked everything in Camera Raw app (Canon supplied) then I tweaked it a bit more as a Photoshop Jpeg.
Original (pretty "Meh" isn't it?).
BiggerSomeone is bound to say that it's cheating HOWEVER ........
1) I don't care
2) Cameras just can't capture what the human eye sees. It's technically impossible. All you can do is use the available tools to try to recreate what it felt like.
Trust me the actual scene I saw was a lot less "Meh" than the resultant original image and a lot more "Wow" like the final "cheating" version.
3) Every classic photo you ever saw, by any of the greats, was "shopped", either digitally or using darkroom techniques, to some extent.