How about a B&W challenge? Just one shot a week? Monochrome Monday starting August 1.
If you shot it in color you may post the color version beside or below the B&W.
Please post your settings like in Peter's weekly challenge.
You may post your image in B&W, Sepia tone, Brown tone, or Blue tone.
You got it, Peter. Also lets post the recipe we used in post to process the monochrome image.
How I do it in Affinity Photo.
First I download my RAW file and develop it. What I want is to work with the best file I can get in color. Rarely do I compensate with Exposure, but it does happen at times. I go to Vibrance first, sometimes a small adjustment is made, but most often I use the Saturation slide by itself, which is included with Vibrance. Having gotten what I want there, I next use the Brightness/Contrast slide to adjust things, brighter or darker, usually tweaking the contrast more or less though. Usually this gets me where I want, but I never rule out the Shadows/Highlight slide. When I get the color photo where I want it, it's time to go B&W. There are many other options I can use, (23 in all) but these are the most often used.
In B&W I have six color adjustments, Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, and Magenta. Most times it takes several adjustments to get where I want to be, I may visit a color and adjust it several times, while others only once is needed.
Here's an example. The color image adjusted.
Converted to B&W.
Red+50%
Yellow+143%
Green-40%
Cyan+75%
Blue-200%
Magenta+100% (neutral)
I'm of the opinion that it's better to under expose than to over expose. A peeve of mine when viewing a B&W image, (mostly older professional shots outdoors) is the lack of sky detail. Some days are just gray with little to do about it, the sky's a blank, but most days there's some detail there missing in a lot of older B&W shots. I believe them to have been over exposed washing out any detail in the heavens.