Requirement 2: Before

This is my before photo for requirement 2. To create the final photo I combined 6 photos in an HDR to bring out the details of the mountains and the sky in the back ground that were lost in this higher exposure. Additionally, I made global edits to straighten the photo so the shore in the background is level and I cropped the photo to reduce the amount of foreground, and to give it more of a landscape look.

Done