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Thanks for sharing, great fun 
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ART 1.18
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I never shoot color, so these play things in color are a real challenge to me. I tend to go overboard on colors. And thus:
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Someone commented that there is a lot of texture in the sky, but I chose to ignore that, being that this is a picture of a house with the sky as background as opposed to a picture of the sky with the house as foreground.
Edit: Darktable 4.4.2
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You are welcome to play in monochrome, too! The subject could also be the sky against a silhouetted building and trees, too – some have taken that approach.
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Yeah, I know. 
Monochrome, I would focus on the lights in the window and the street … with some masks and selective adjustments.
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Edit: Darktable 4.4.2
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It definitely draws the eye to the window – someone’s home.
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Actually thought of someone standing in the street below the window wondering what would be inside, something like The Exorcist poster or some other horror movie …
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I kept getting white flowers on the trees with the raw so went with the jpg and did a quicky in gimp
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Nice – but there are no flowers of any kind in the picture.
As you probably noticed, the LX7 does not embed a full-size JPG, only one limited to about 2000 pixels on the longer side.
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Thanks for sharing.
My version of fun with it (4.5.0+787~gaf0975cca0):
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And then a pair of agx renders:
The difference is that in the first one I did not touch any control in agx, and adjusted contrast and colours in color balance rgb. The second one is a ‘native’ agx edit.
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Using AgX and the whole power dt gives me with all it’s tools:
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