Usually I hate those Instagram-like photos with 100% contrast and 100% saturation, because I want my photos to be close to reality. I mean: Everybody will be disappointed if the sky is not perfect blue and the grass is not perfect green in reality after looking at those “photos”…
OK, I know: Reality is just a disappointment for an artist, but anyway:
I’d be interested how you could improve this shot taken at close distance “free hand” (exported from Adobe Lightroom 5):
Sorry, I’m new:
On license: The file has CC-BY-SA inside. Is that enough?
On Original RAW: exiftool says “[DNG] Original Raw Image : (Binary data 13506299 bytes, use -b option to extract)”. Doesn’t that work for you?
That said, consider editing your opening post to include the licence in the text. Having the licence in the post gives us the confidence to download the file.
It depends on the motive. And how close to reality the editing is depends on how you perceived reality. The styles presented in the Instagram quickly become clichéd when they are used without care for each subject.
In this case, I think the apple blossoms that are illuminated radiate a little diffuse light and therefore look more pleasant if they don’t have too much contrast: