This a shot from my trip to Belgium a few days ago.
Could you please make it a better picture ? I tried it a few times but was not satisfied. Maybe to much details, or the light, or the color?
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Try to deepen the shadows and avoid to level brightness all over the place. And yes, that’s even for me a bit too many details. 
I will offer an edit later on.
Just a Laptop edit. But I think it should be OK to show the direction:
Or maybe with a square crop:
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What is it that for you is not good enough? What did you see when taking this photo? What is for you the subject of this picture?
For me the subject might be the autumnal light, creating a warm glow and deep shades. The line of the path and the wooden bar may be a subject too.
There is lot’s of monochrome like green in a picture that consists of mostly red, yellow and green shades.
I tried to neutralize the color balance a bit (see the path)
Tried to seprate the green colors a bit
Split toned the darks toward blue and the lights towards yellow
Bit op DorS bloom on the lighter parts
Slight crop
More contrast and vibrance
Stark vignette
No tone mapper
Beware, I’m very far from a color specialist or color magician…
I had a similar idea for reducing fine detail, but accentuating the path/fence. I tried to begin with white balance picked from whole image, then adding colour in CB-RGB. It probably didn’t make it easier…
@laurent I love the browns you got.
CLUT is my little hack when I want to enhance browns or explore enhancing them…I just work the two skin tone patches and play with saturation and brightness…
Yes, my collection of cube LUT’s helps a lot… And how easy to find the good one with my Photo Rebel ‘baby’ helps even more… 
To me this needs to start in the camera. I would never shoot a landscape with shallow depth of field so the F4 aperture would not have been used by me. The out of focus portions of the image upset me.
If you want to avoid excessive detail I feel the nice bloom effect that @Popanz has applied is the way to go.
In my edit I tried to relight the scene a little with dodge and burning to focus the eye towards the sunlight fence. I added a little bit of bloom as well.
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Seems I wasn’t the only one who saw the road that takes your eye. So I gave the photo a bit of a vignette to brighten up that area. Used RT and gimp
Okay, I was trying to do too much, and I should have adjusted my settings right when I took the photo. @terry’s comment got me thinking. I had thought that a wide aperture would capture enough detail without the image looking too busy. But the subject has to be right for that….
So thank you very much for your work, but no RAW processor can work magic to turn a bad photo into a good one.
