Perhaps you could give a brief summary of what those adjustments were.
I used Lightroom a good while back. I always had the feeling that when I moved something like the shadow slider, a lot of adjustments were being made behind the scenes (local contrast etc) which is why people say that it is simple to use…
I have so many, that I don’t know where to start. The list would endless and very newbie…
My general feeling is that most of what you did seems counter-intuitive / exactly the opposite what I would do: decrease the exposure, decrease the shadows and increase the highlights, crank up almost everything in the colour balance RGB …
DSCF0262_15.RAF.xmp (14.4 KB)
Challenging picture…
DT 3.6 and all tricks I am capable of, including some dodge/burn
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Yes, of course, I could do that, but this is a darktable forum so, I think, no one here is interested in how to do stuff in Lightroom. I only posted it because there was a request to see the photo made with other software. I spent a very short time on it, but with a few more minutes I may have created a range mask (similar to a darktable parametric mask) on the sky and done a bit more there. Also, I may have used an adjustment brush (similar to a darktable drawn mask) to work on the interesting puddles.
Fair enough, I realise that most people wouldn’t be interested in a detailed description of your steps in Lightroom as most of us don’t use it. However just a brief description of the main tools used might help some of us understand what editing a similar picture in Lightroom entails. . I am just curious really. No problem if you don’t think it worthwhile…
I just used the typical Lightroom controls. I used white balance, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, texture, clarity, dehaze, and vibrance controls. I then tweaked the color calibration controls a little bit after all that. That’s it, nothing special. Oh, I also used the transform panel (like the darktable perspective correction module) and a small amount of sharpening. Just your basic stuff. Sure, with more time I could do more, but it’s not my photo so I didn’t feel like spending more than a few minutes on it. I didn’t use the tone curve or any non-global editing.
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i got two edits:
my own twist on adapting some techniques from @s7habo 's youtube video (DSCF0262.RAF.xmp 12.4 KB)
and my second attempt using a different approach (DSCF0262_01.RAF.xmp 13.6 KB)
[still figuring out how to make the colours of the building poped up 
]
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fantastic and very natural edit. Thanks.
I will be out for holidays. When I am back will revise editions. Thank you all.
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Very nice image. I like to bring the yellow out. Rawtherapee was used.
This picture allows a really good exercise using Darktable. Thank you for sharing it. I tried to process it using my limited experience with DT according to my taste.
There are dark spaces on the round building (basilica?) in the middle such as the arcs above the windows and the main door in front of the building and the main door itself.
In some processed images shown in this thread those areas are completely black lacking of any details. Those pictures look very crisp however. In other pictures (jpg) and in my picture those arcs are a little bit bluish or greenish with several bright dots. What is the reality, that may not matter.
Not only the sky is difficult to edit, but also the yellow bricks that should look natural. If the color of the buildings is too brilliant and saturated, at first sight they look attractive, but if you zoom in, then the facade is not realistic.
This is my brief analysis on the rendering of this picture.
DSCF0262Kopie.RAF.xmp (19.0 KB)
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My take - tried to give it more drama by contrast of yellows and blues.
DSCF0262_10.RAF.xmp (10.9 KB)
Nice edition, thanks.
Sorry I cannot follow the thread as much as I would like to, as I am on holidays and reading in mobile device.
The stones are a bit yellowish, but not too much. Ypur edition may be close to natural aspect.
There are blue zones in cupula and other paintings, not black, as you and others have detected.
It us nit an ancuent buliding, but it us inspured in them.
It was built buy Franco dictature, after civil war, about 1950 or so, I think.
It was part of an educational complex destinated to professional education (despite its name it was not desi g to be a university) in mechanics, and other labors.
Of course a basilica was a must and this is the central building.
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Thank you Fernando for the information on the appearance and history of that educational complex and for the link. We now know that nice place in Gijon.
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Hey @Anders welcome to the community. It is customary to post a sidecar file from your editor and/or explain about your process if you used a rastor editor like gimp or krita.
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Of course - here is the xmp file, including a few extra steps. I adjusted contrast using tone eq, and used diffuse and sharpen for local contrast and sharpness, and cc channel mixder and color balance rgb for color grading, including some masking to separate the sky. Rotate and perspective for perspective, auto with a small manual adjustment. Additions after the posted image are watermarks and a bit of more contrast in the sky.
DSCF0262.RAF.xmp (32.2 KB)
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