A lot of things make good test objects, and sometimes it’ll turn out to be really funky (at least I think so 😉 ).
So we were out hiking and came across this branch. I thought it may look good in black and white, with the patterns on the stem and everything. Tried some things when I got home, but it was basically a boring image without much potential. Until I started messing around with it in Photoshop.
So here’s the original:

D700, ISO200, 1/8000 sec @ f/1.4, Nikkor 50mm

Quite boring, no?
But then, after like 10 adjustment layers in Photoshop it turned into this:

Same as above, but with "some" adjustments in Photoshop.