Color Masks in Gimp

You could use Gmic’s hue overlay masks:
https://discuss.pixls.us/t/hue-overlay-masks-my-first-filter/5000

Here I used the red mask (remember to set it to layer mode “normal” to see it):
_MG_8538_red

Quickly applied the levels tool in Gimp (could have done better using curves):
_MG_8538_red_levels

This should work quite well for selecting the hair, if that is what you wanted.

Here’s the red channel of the image plus the red mask in overly mode, plus some curves adjustment:
Lion#
Cheers

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