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You will need to fix a lens profile for your lens and a noise profile for your camera. With my settings you will need a decent graphic card and Open CL.
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OK, these great results show me, it is possible and I’m just too stupid 
Thank you so much for your help!
Here’s my go. 
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In case it’s of interest, this is a screen capture of me doing it - minus the last two color calibration tweaks in the xmp’s history stack, as these were an afterthought…
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For me, it’s already there in dt 4.3 -287.
Yes, profiled denoise isn’t working without manual fine tuning - massive over-smoothing on default.
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dt is just so good, and gets better every release. It’s very flexible - once you get your head around all the different process modules and how they interact and settle on the ones that suit you - and the masking functionality is awesome.
Here’s my dev and xmp (dt 4.2). First-off I used Tone Equalizer to lighten the shadows and midtones in a straight line (so darkest shads get max than lightest mid get hardly any). Then another instance of TE to darken the bright band of sky behind tree. Then Exposure module with mask to lighten the field/fg. Color Balance RGB to add saturation and lighten mids. Two instances of Diffuse or Sharpen; one to sharpen, the second to add local contrast. Sigmoid to tone map (find it better than Filmic when image contains extreme light source). Local Contrast to give final boost favouring mt/hl.
Lovely shot btw.
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As this more or less became a “play raw” now … please assign a license to the photo. see this post About the Play Raw category
That was way faster than my attempt.
I love it! Thanks for the screencast as well!
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Good hint! But there are different CC Licenses. Would CC BY-NC-SA fit the purpose?
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I don’t think you are stupid but if you are using defaultish DT settings…I know excuse the term but if so DT will fight giving you that yellow which you will see often called rat piss yellow… so don’t be surprised in many cases if you get what looks like more vivid colors from LR… As DT by default puts in place a lot of checks and balances for gamut and hue shift issues…
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Sure.
By the way, what is the status of vkdt? Should we be looking to use it for day to day processing yet?
can’t answer that… i’m using it for all my processing for quite some time now, but will not tell others what to do 
the feature set is different to darktable (which for instance doesn’t have animation/timelapse support) and the ui is different enough to cost you some time coming from dt.
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Can’t get a similar result, I guess that shadow/highlights in Lightroom is very powerful
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That was a very challenging task.
Not to have it like in Lightroom version, but to get a pleasant illumination especially in highlights. In a scene like this, one tends to use very strong local contrasts and over-emphasize the texture and saturation.
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Darktable 4.3.0~git671.b312ff20-1+9175.1
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I think your edit has very strong, mist-like halo over the ground.
Compare with the original shot (only exposure is increased, no filmic or sigmoid, no tone equalizer or any other module):
See how the line of trees is brighter just over the ground than further up?
I think that is the result of masking in tone equalizer.
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