With Peter's help I dug up an old challenge. Post processing/editing challenge.
Each week someone posts a new (preferably) RAW challenge photo, we'll use the same rules as the original challenge.
And then the rules:
The challenge is weekly, a new thread with a new raw (preferably) or jpg fine file for each week.
Cutoff time for submissions is midnight between sunday and monday your time zone.
This is a round-robin challenge, the order of submitting the week’s raw file is based on an alphabetical list of applicants’ user names. If the next submitter on the list is unable to post at his/her turn he/she may ask the thread master to be moved down the list no later than friday morning. Late applications will be added at the bottom of the list.
We will revise this when every applicant has had a go, and perhaps change this model.
The submitter for the week must make the file along with any specific text for the post available to the thread master during the weekend preceding the challenge week. The thread master will then copy the file to a Dropbox location for the challenge and make the starting post for the week.
Images provided, as well as the images resulting from the challenge remain the sole property of the photographer who took them. Those participating in the editing challenge may not use or display the photo outside the challenge thread.
The owner of the photo declares a winner after the challenge is over.
As this challenge is a tool for learning and inspiration, multiple entries are not only ok, but encouraged if a participant gets a new idea for how to present or interpret the photo, including artistic interpretations.
Participants must share how they have achieved their take on the photo.
Participants are explicitly not limited as to what software is used for the challenge.
I'll start off with this RAW file shot at Gettysburg, April 23 2021. Nikon D750 Nikkor 24-120 f4 G ED RAW 1/160 f22 ISO500 120mm 0.0
The Michael Bushman farmhouse on the southern end of the July 2 1863 Battlefield with Big Roundtop in the right background. The orchard on the right is where Confederate General John Bell Hood was wounded by a Union shell at the outset of the Confederate advance. The farm was used as an aid station for the wounded and a temporary hospital. The bodies of eight Confederate dead were buried there.
I'm still trying to feel my way through this, here's my edit on the above photo. I used Affinity Photo and simply increased the contrast by 25% and darkened it 11%.