Photo taken from Rocks over Horseshoe beach in Bermuda.
Trying to get some ideas on how to edit it.
Here is my attempt in darktable 5.6
2L1B7996.CR2 (30.9 MB)
2L1B7996.CR2.xmp (17.3 KB)
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My take:
I cropped away the fat dude at the bottom left, removed the sky to target the rocks. I ‘darkenified’ the right side a bit to break the monotonous lighting. Then I played with the colours and added a massive dose of sharpening.
The picture is somewhat missing a foreground subject, imo…
This is a one click edit for me using a style adapted from this forum to simulate Fujifilm Provia look. It works nicely with most of my Canon R7 shots as a starting point. I have included the style rather than the xmp file in case anyone is interested in downloading and importing the style to give it a try.
dt 5.6.0 no tonemapper
spektrafilm_experimental Verita preset
see: Old Danish living room - #14 by Doug-Phoenix
2L1B7996.CR2.xmp (15,1 KB)
Perhaps I overcooked it the first time. Here is a more basic edit of an excellent image.
I may look back on this and think ‘too moody’… but that’s just me today, not in a bad mood, feeling very positive… just my editing is moody… I feel like this today.
one in a million ways 
