Assembled shopping carts at a local Costco. Set the camera on the ground and composed by "dead reckoning" estimate.
-Handheld, Auto mode
-RGB Curve
-Isolate Green Channel to Grayscale image
-Gray Curve
-Gray Curve through diagonal gradient to even out lighting a bit
-Rotate 0.6°CW
-Crop from left, right, and bottom
-Resize
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-Enlarge Canvas to make border
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 246KB
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7 - well balanced, strong composition, I would have preferred it if you could have captured a bit more tonal range as the highlights at the top left are blown but that is just me (and you may have done this deliberately anyway)