I’m curious to see what others can do with this image and how I can improve it.
I decided to refrain from raising exposure to keep the illumination ambiance faithful to the scene.
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Here is a moody take. RT 5.8 as usual.
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NIce image!
I used my homebrew Nikon D7000 SSF profile, a rather tame filmic curve, and a second whitebalance using a simple ‘grayworld’ algorithm on top of the “as-shot” whitebalance I usually put in before demosaic. In rawproc:
The fun lasted 5 min. bravo apothecary eye.
It isn’t the first edit with some visible mishaps 
That doesn’t not sound polite. If it wasn’t meant this way, please forgive my ignorance…
Just in case, please take note that this camera/lens has some nasty spots.
Maybe they were amplified by @Zbyma72age edit
@heckflosse I don’t think the ouch was polite either.
I would call it a wow, thinking there was a tear in the space-time continuum but then @gadolf’s explanation is more sensible. 
