RAW Edit Challenge – Week 1
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Deadline: Friday March 23, 2012
Well, I have already received a ton of feedback from people interested in the RAW challenge, so I am just going to run with it.
Here is how this is going to work. Each week, I will upload a single (and hopefully unique) RAW file (NEF off a Nikon D700) for you to edit in your own style. Some weeks I will give you models to work with, some weeks nature, some weeks architecture…. you get the point. Be crazy (HDR/DRI), be gentle (B&W/Color/etc), it’s all up to you. Really hoping to get a wide array of results and knowledge dumping.
Once you have completed your edits, email them to me at raylarose@me.com and I will post them all at the end of the week. Please give a quick overview of what you did to make the edit. Send to me as a JPG with the longest edge being 2000px.
This weeks download is a shot of a bicycle I took in Orlando, FL with my Nikon D700 and Carl Zeiss 100mm lens. The ZIP file is 14MB in size and is a Nikon RAW image. If you have Photoshop, there should be no issue opening it.
Very curious to see what you come up with!
Click here to download the RAW file.
21 Comments
Aaron
March 17, 2012This is probably one of my favorite photo’s that you have taken to date. Frankly I wouldn’t mess with perfection, really. The photo is exquisite. The lighting, the composition, the subject, the angles and cropping. It all is seemingly in perfect sync. The one tiny, and when I say tiny I mean minuscule, issue that I see after looking at the printed photo in my house is the texture in the foreground is a tad bit muddy. With all the light going on in other areas it’s only natural that an area falls to shadow, so to speak, and the texture of the stone, in my humble opinion, is just dying to play a larger role. Now I don’t remember the exact terms that would be appropriate here and I will save myself the embarrassment by just saying I would lighten up the stone and give that stone a little life. There is so much wonderful texture happening in other areas it seems, to me, that it would only enhance the richness that is already happening.
Raymond
March 17, 2012Yeah – and I think this is a great part of the challenge – tacking the lighting and textures in different ways. Thanks so much for your encouragement here!
Dylan Toh
March 17, 2012I’ll try to participate Ray – once wedding season is over! You get some really interesting results as you may have seen from the latest one of these I did last week!
Raymond
March 17, 2012That’s fantastic – I look forward to it – and your wedding shots have been AMAZING lately. Blown away by that latest one with the couple on a pier. Great color to it.
Philippe Sainte-Laudy
March 18, 2012Hi Ray no time to participate, but generous initiative!!!
Raymond
March 18, 2012No problem, Philippe – thanks for stopping by!
VJ
March 18, 2012Hello Ray,
How have you been doing ?
Many thanks for inviting to participate in RAW EDIT CHALLENGE !
I would like participate and have already downloaded the RAW file.
Will do the edit and email you the same. VJ
Raymond
March 19, 2012So glad to have you joining in! Have so many great entries – this is looking great!
Jesse Lazzaro
March 18, 2012Downloading now . . . challenge accepted hehehe
Raymond
March 19, 2012You rock dude!!
Eric Rousset
March 19, 2012Cool idea Ray,
Well I will try to do something with this one, if I don’t have time Il will check the next RAW ;-))
PS:The idea for me will be a pseudo HDR to bring more details in shadows and to enhance the colors and details and finally why not to play with textures ;-)
Raymond
March 19, 2012I know yours will really be awesome – can’t wait to see what you do. If you can’t make this one, I know you’ll love next weeks challenge!
Daniel
March 19, 2012Well, you already have my result in your hands, well rather on your computer. I am looking forward to see the results of others soon. It is interesting to see what others make of a scene.
P.S.: Did you find my signature in the version I’ve send you? *g*
Raymond
March 19, 2012You hid it good – I am still looking!
Daniel
March 19, 2012Take a look at the dark beam of the bench in the front ;-)
Raymond
March 20, 2012I see it now – nice.
Brett Valentine
March 21, 2012Hey Ray,
What a beautiful shot to begin with! And of course, my curiosity was drawn to the bike sitting there quietly in the shadow. . .
Thanks for the opportunity to “play.”
Brett
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