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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If the aim here was to mimic Adobe Lightroom, I think @Dusenberg wins big time. With this in mind, the mist-halo is a super-plus, no discussion about that. His version is what lightroomers dream of in their wet dreams and will always dream of, and this is why I gave him a heart. I’m not joking.
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Thank you! Yeah, I also loved that scene. And because I love darktable as well I want to get the best out of it. I bought a Lightroom subscription to learn what the software does and how to apply parts of it in darktable. Won’t prolong it for another year I think. I know my version is somewhat over the top with the colors. Thanks for your attempt to mimic it, it’s great!
2:15 minutes of your screencast has taught me a lot…
Very usefull and insightfull approach, very dirrent from how I handle DT
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Here is another go attempting to bring out more clarity, contrast and detail in the foreground shadowed region. This was mainly achieved by using two instances of default values for shadow and highlights. This module adds contrast and colour in the shadows by default. Never exceed the value of 50% on the sliders, but rather use multiple instances if a stronger effect is desired.
BTW, this is a great shot for demonstrating the different approaches and looks that each person obtains here. The edit I have done here is too vibrant for my taste, but I felt constrained by trying to achieve something similar to the LR edit. If you had put this image in the Plawraw category and gave no hint of your expectations it would be interesting to what we would have done with it.
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I think this kind of thread, and the whole attempt to develop an image to match or be similar to something else is very educational. 
In the normal way, one may be quite happy with a certain approach in a certain piece of software, and that’s all good, but trying to match a different result pushes one away from the “path of least resistance” if I may call it that.
To be honest, my attempt in this case wasn’t so different to my normal workflow anyway, as I like those sort of punchy colorful results (in the right circumstances), but I’ve learnt a lot from Play Raws, as well as watching videos and so on.
Thanks everyone!
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