At least her on my screen, the family looked a little dull (with respect to the contrast 
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I tried RT with one local spot as the Lady’s face suffered most from shadow.
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Sometimes the crop is more important than the processing 
yes, i agree 
my RT version following the @heckflosse crop
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The name of the pp3 suggests you uploaded a wrong one…
Here is my take:
I used filmic rgb, and 3 instances of tone equalizer (1 with gradient mask to brighten dark tones of bottom (guided filter), 1 with mask on people to make them brighter (guided filter), 1 to make clouds darker (eigf))
I seem to do that quite regularly; I’m not sure what my issue is … 
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My attempt in ART. Really tricky, just threw lots of things at it in the hope of improving it, including parametric and area masks, but still not happy with it. I don’t think anybody has quite nailed it yet…Perhaps because we are trying to recreate a picture that is far removed from how the image appeared under those lighting conditions, it will be very difficult to achieve something that looks natural and pleasing.
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That was a difficult task. I’m not very satisfied, but I think there’s just not very much you can do.
Since the scene reminds me a bit of western film, I adjusted the color mood of the photo a bit.
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I was wondering if you’d show up and work your magic Thanks for the edit; it has a fun atmosphere. My kids approve.
I like this. If you are getting horrible unnatural colours, go with the flow, embrace them and use them to your advantage…
Thank you for the play, also a crop,
Started with RT: 2020-06-01_16-43-35_DSC_0252-1.tif.out.pp3 (12.0 KB)
(Purposely as it is)
Thereafter with GIMP and G’MIC a lot of (local) contrast filtering and a bit color grading, all a bit over the top, but I had fun 
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Lovely scene. Nice challenge. I let tone eq do most of the heavy lifting.
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dt 3.4.1
Skin spots is a fact of life but I think the shadow over the face makes them more apparent. So, after exposure recovery, I advise you all to reduce the blemishes somewhat.
OK, I didn’t want to be defeated so had another go, and tried to achieve something that didn’t hurt your eyes so much.
Here, I used ART to lighten the foreground to lighten the figures, but used a parametric mask to exclude the green colour of the field. I think this shot is tricky because if you use a tone equaliser to lighten the figures it also lightens the grass making it look lurid and unrealistic.
then used a feathered area mask in the top half to darken the mountains and the sky.
Then just a little local contrast and a slight vignette and crop, that was it.
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@spidermonkey I like your positive attitude! And your new image!
Everything is quite pleasant except for the right edge, where there is a black border and it seems to be cropped a little too much.