Challenging image. I think I overdid it on the saturation but it’s hard to balance color and brightness on this one. May be good for some B&W practice.
Very easy to oversharpen this - tried to resist the urge,
bring some structures into the sky,
balance the colors - not to contrasty,
a bit clarity, thats about it.
Here is a screenshot of my standard processing for this image. Well exposed and easy to process image. I used auto levels adjustment in Filmic, but then tweaked the black exposure slider to reduce the darkness of the shadows.
Few versions …first one is filmic then next few are sigmoid tweaks stemming from trying to be sure the hands on the clock had some detail…
I kept editing the same image so I think I lost the xmp files for each but you can get them by loading the jpgs as a sidecar if any of them spark any interest
Edit" The halo on the tree line for a couple of them was present full screen but not 100 per cent I was curious how it would export… it is due to the tone eq on the clock… tweaking the settings or masking could remove it… I think I did that in a couple of the other ones not showing it…