Middle of the night insomnia. Abstract take.
PhotoFlow demosaicing (blend, RCD), lens correction (all), rotation, Rec2020 linear float
gmic HLG, dehaze (broken), brighten-contrast (test), sharpen (FFT), crop, resize
Zoom 100% and enjoy!
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I think it is interesting that few people here use masks.
I did not feel the need for any parametric or drawn masks. The Tone Equalizers guided mask did a great job allowing control over the different regions.
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Yes, but @anon41087856 is the benchmark here ;-). Since I watched his video about filmic I’ve an idea what to do and I’m really impressed by the power of filmicRGB (and tone equalizer) now.
20191001T162108.ORF.xmp (9.6 KB)
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I prefer your version as the areas in shadow are that bit darker and more believable/natural-looking to me. A lot of versions here have the path and trees in shadow very light and saturated which looks over-cooked to me when viewed as part of the scene as a whole, but I’d say you’ve just about avoided that. Mine may be too dark. 
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I enjoyed both of your entries. 
Second test of new brighten-contrast method. Otherwise kept it simple.
PhotoFlow demosaicing (blend, RCD), lens correction (all), rotate, Rec2020 linear float
gmic soft light (inverse), smooth (texture), brighten-contrast (test), retinex (negate, soft light), sharpen (FFT), resize
Zoom 100% and enjoy.
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Thanks for this challenging image! Here is another try with photoflow, partly based on @paulmiller and @gadolf versions:
20191001T162108-af.jpg.pfi (62.8 KB)
I have tried to keep a natural look, mostly using exposure compensation, shadows/highlights and tone-mapping curve.
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Do you have a sidecar file or can you describe how you did it?
All done in GIMP. I did a selection by colour for the sky and inverted the selection so that the sky was protected. I then used luminosity masks, one of which selected only the mountain. Followed this with sharpening using wavelet-decompose.
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