Have fun and show me how you are treating these contrasts:
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Nice composition, and you kept the full dynamic range in the sensor’s resolution. That however, put the shadows in the well, so to speak.
I get a lot of that in my captures, for extreme cases I do a two-part tone curve: 1) loggamma, lifts the shadows out of that well into the range shape-able by 2) a control point curve:
Color contrast is also a thing; I injected some HSV saturation damage early in the toolchain to do that. Kinda takes it out of the realm of realism, though.
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Well it’s quite natural in live that on a sunny day you hardly see what lies in the deep shadow of a bush or whatever. I think one of the biggest errors on such a theme is, to try to make literally everthing visable. That usually leads to a flat and boring pic. The question is how far do one rise the shadows.
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Indeed. Most scenes provide two or more gallons of range, and most sensors can only accommodate one gallon, so to speak… 
My tone tools are simple, global. I sometimes wish I had some of the local tools available in dt, but I’ve grown too lazy to figure them out and code them…
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It is a beautiful scene, so I didn’t want to do anything drastic. dt 4.6.1
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Nice play, not so easy!
Had to cheat a little to get a somewhat blueish sky …
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A quick go, but I didn’t manage to get the yellow glow like the original post.
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Here’s my shot…apparently I didn’t want to see a well lit, sunshine and morning dew image…
Edited in DT 4.2, leaned heavily on the contrast equalizer and graduated density filter.
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My - fun in GIMP
Original jpeg file GIMP Quality 90 => 10.6 MB
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Saving as jpegli => Quality 50 => 3,.08 MB (XL Converter)
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