RAW editing competition

[Ian Watts]

Not sure how we could do this, but wouldn't it be good if we could have a RAW editing competition - just for fun. I would upload a RAW file that others would then download and play with. See how many versions of the same photo that we got. The winner would then upload the next RAW photo and so on.
Just not sure how we could get the RAW photo's uploaded on here for others to download - any ideas anyone??

[Dawn]

I will play!!!!

[Dawn]

Ummmm you dont have to upload the raw file to here you could upload it somewhere sharable and then just include a link. I bet you could upload RAW to dropbox or mabye skydrive.... and then share. I will try it.

[Ian Watts]

OK - i'll go first - here is a public link to a file on my dropbox - https://db.tt/AqIkR4Xi - it is one that I have done - see if you can download it Dawn and have a go.

[Ian Watts]

If that doesn't work try this
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hd0xmydvf3krbyk/IMG_0560.dng

[Dawn]

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=A9238CB3C4498DB8!1375&authkey=!ADTyOwNSrwx-KQA&v=3

Does this work?

[Ian Watts]

That works - have you tried mine?

[Frank Hymus]

@iwatts Here's what I quickly came up with, converted back to jpeg to post here. Tone and color adjustments, detail recovery and some extra noise mitigation to smoothe out the resulting sky a little.

[Dawn]

ahhhhhh @frankhymus beat me to it, yes it works! @iwatts So then the gauntlet has been thrown?? and the Challenge is on?

[Ian Watts]

OK - let's leave this thread here - I will start a new one with official rules to get more people on board. @acloserlookpbd make sure you post on the new one. @frankhymus Please post yout interpretation again on the new one.

[Alexis Birkill]

Quick B&W conversion -- too much haloing on the treeline, but that could be fixed given a bit more time.

[Ian Watts]

@abirkill Hi Alex - as this was a bit of a test, can you move it to http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/19442/official-raw-competition as now the official thread for the competition.

[Alexander]

@iwatts I'm about to go have breakfast, but will have a crack at it, Ian.

[Ian Watts]

@quixoticneophyte Mkae sure you go to here - the official thread now we know it works
http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/19442/official-raw-competition

[Ron Correia]

I already added a color image to the competition thread and that's my official entry. I really was curious about the b&w version, though, so I took that color version into Topaz B&W FX to produce this:

[Mike Gifford]

@kannafoot @quixoticneophyte @abirkill @acloserlookpbd @frankhymus

I wanted to keep and enhance the colors to follow the autumn style theme. I also added details and removed "junk" from the water.

[Debbie]

So can u clarify that this ONLY RAW processing - nothing in photoshop?

[Ian Watts]

@debilz No Debbie - it starts with a Raw image - after that - do what you want. I wanted it to start with RAW so that people had the maximum data to work with.

[Ian Watts]

Can I point out the official thread for this competition can be found here
http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/19442/official-raw-competition

It won't matter so long as you have tagged your photo's with RAWCOMP-1 - they will still be enetered.

[Debbie]