It just needs a woman pushing a vacuum cleaner. As Larson said, she knew that nature abhors a vacuum.
I don’t think I have time for a playraw today, and would not know where to start on this one. But there are some really great edits already, from people that do 
Just because I don’t really like the bright gap, where the sky comes true. I find it very distracting.
Of course you can dimm it down, to have it somewhat blue. But this leads in my eyes to an unnatural look. on @gwbarn’s edit it works for me better than on @dqpcoxeas’, where the leafes have massive halos. Still I find the blue sky not really fitting. It stays just a heavy distractor because of colour and brightness - I tried it for my self and gave in. On my first edit I tried to adapt it to the other brighter parts of the picture but that didn’t really work out as well (at least for me). For some reasons on my B/W render I find ind more pleasant.
So going cinematic was the only way to be really satisfied with this part of this otherwise lovely shot.
I think mine came out pretty similar to others. Maybe a little lighter in the shadows, as all that dust is likely to diffuse a lot of light.:
My edit.
Thanks for a beautiful image!
Started with darktable and finished with a trip through SpektraFilm.
I don’t know a good way to share the edits with that workflow. darktable edits are still embedded in the photo (just confirmed I can load from it). Exported from darktable as tif in linear pro photo, and in SpektraFilm it’s Kodak Ektar 100 on Endura Premier paper, -4 on the print y filter shift (whatever that means, ha, makes “more gold”), grain disabled, diffusion applied, and maybe something else I’m forgetting.
Hold on, maybe I can…
Yes! Looks like this is the export of my SpektraFilm settings:
Sorry, the file you are trying to upload is not authorized 
Ah.
(It’s a json file exported from SpektraFilm.)
Perhaps if I …
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Is that a permissable work-around? Of course, given the very work-in-progress state of SpektraFilm, I don’t know how long those settings will work for other people.
Love it!
Yes, those two and Contrast Equaliser. But I did use drawn and parametric masks to focus on the centre, light tones
Hi @Kland wonderful photograph!
As I haven’t been there at the right moment I had no idea about what it ‘should’ look like.
So I choose a golden interpretation. And played around with multiply mode as I have hardly any experience with it.
And I listened quite well - as I often do - to @Popanz’ remarks, this time about cropping.
By the way, it is only a bit more than one year ago I started using dt watching exactly the vid you looked at
Hope you like the result.
Beautiful edit. Thanks for contributing.
The fun with play_raw is that the player has no attachment to the reality at the moment the picture was taken. That gives a freedom advantage. It might very well be that besides being beautiful - a certain interpretation is way out from the photographers experience. Thus rendering it nearly impossible to ‘accept’ as realistic.
Have fun!
Beautiful atmosphere, thanks for sharing
I really hesitate how (and where) to use the bloom preset in Diffuse&Sharpen
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Thanks @jetze
What a great use of tone eq and multiply blend mode. It is a great application of the module on this image and I hope you don’t mind me copying the idea for my edit.
I have gone for a more sparkly version than yours but the tones have been tamed from their extremes without the need for additional tone mapping with something like AGX.
I have included a bit of the sky but toned it to match the rest of the image as I don’t think blue fits well in the colour scheme. I know this is wrong according to the laws of sunlight but I will stick with my choice.
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Beautiful image Kland!
I tried to clone out the sky after cropping low enough. There was still some blue sky visible through the gaps in the leaves that I tried to clone out. Not a good job but let me know what you think.
Nice that you have kept some colour in the sky while making the image moody.
