Yes, I saw that. It was just funny when I read the title, clicked on the thread and only saw the first image.
Beautiful pictures. I will develop the other ones, too. Just got darktable 3.2 .1 on Archlinux .
I find this a tough one to edit. I don’t have a clue what it is that @age actually saw when taking this shot. Was it really that blue/turquoise? How much of the haze was seen. How about the greens that should be there. Did the sun just peek over the mountain range…
All in all I would put my edit in the artistic freedom category Hope it is liked anyway…
Yes , maybe very very slightly more green (emerald?) like a big swimming pool.
However I can’t get the real color, i think it falls outside the srgb gamut.
A lot, the haze was very strong with an overall blueish scene, pratically no details on the left and low contrast but with high saturation
Arguably (?) the toughest edit of the three. It’s hard to keep the saturation, especially the sky, in check. And then there is the hard line between sky and mountains; Just about everything you do needs to be checked for fringing, aberrations and other abnormalities. Still think my edit makes this line a bit too hard, but I had to choose between this or other “evils”.
Another try at one of the photographs - this time by processing the raw to bright and dark images and then blending them. Followed by a small amount of adjustment in GIMP.
david.