Yes, I like your edit. However, I don’t do play raws as a competition. In my version I tried to get some more contrast in the background and the the tires, although others might have done a better job in this respect.
OK, the question now is : Why ? And how to work this ?
Thanks for the tips.
Also, as for Filmic, here are my settings :
Well, I think there is something going wrong there.
I compared your xml after using it and noticed that it had dropped from ~17 kb to ~9 - so some steps were discarded.I think that is why I see your work darker than mine on my computer. The processing is broken by 3.8 unable to use 3.9 settings.
So I will have to compare the jpeg you exported with mine instead of working directly in dt, the xml being useless.
Rgrds,
It is not a competition of course, just a way of learning.
I am kind of isolated - all the photographs I know use PS and do not want to ear about anything else.
Plus, most of the tutorials are not in french, and even if some seem very good, I have to rewind 6 to 10 times some parts before I can really understand what were really meant.
And the subtitles, when accurate, tend to disturb me.
Add to that that some are many months old, and so explain things in a way that is no longer used.
I recently found some videos from Aurélien Pierre, and L. Viatour, from which I tried to adapt my settings.
Luc is very easy to understand, and Aurélien sometimes tends to be technical and I feel lost - so imagine when he explains things technical in english !
I have been using dt since 2.6 I think, but in a way that makes me say I am a beginner. I am just starting learning dt.
Rgrds,
More important than my impression is what you like. I’m not really qualified to give specific advise, but you are already doing what would be my first tip: go and play in play raw. And then there are series of videos like Editing moments with darktable, but like you mentioned, in english.
Looks like it doesn’t load the 3.9 XMP at all but opens the photo with your DT default settings. I just took a look at 3.8.1 and recognized this.
Here is my - hopefully more usefull - edit with 3.8.1.
_16211133.NEF.xmp (8.4 KB)
That’s what I like this forum for, so many open source users 
. And a lot of usefull information to find hear, too. The threads are mostly in English though, but a good place to start learning.
Have you checked out the French DT site I think it is actually pretty good…Also Nicolas Winspeare now has quite a few videos in French…
I did a few edits…looks pretty good right out of the gate. I just played around with filmic mostly to expt with contrast and added diffuse and sharpen not much in the way of modules…
They don’t look that different but there are minor differences…
16211133_03.NEF.xmp (14.3 KB)
16211133_02.NEF.xmp (9.5 KB)
16211133_01.NEF.xmp (10.9 KB)
16211133.NEF.xmp (9.5 KB)
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To me, they are quite different, emphasizing different areas of the frame. It would be interesting if you fused all the edits into one master result.
The latter with the sky of the second one… 
I kind of like this contrasty version that I came up with…but it might be too much…
16211133_03.NEF.xmp (12.0 KB)
Edit:
Fair comment @lightlover …same edit as above just a bump in the sky with the tone eq…I think it looks better…
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Let me explain. To me, there are 4 main aspects to this photo to which to pay attention:
- People - keep in middle tones and protect from extreme edits
- Truck body - make gloss and chrome luxurious (in a car manner)
- Dust/grit - texture (and lower visibility) of course!
- Sky - bright but not overblown or without detail
For my part, I left them apart on purpose as most of the change in the edit came from the different approach and settings that I used in filmic…I was just really experimenting with no real targeted strategy other than what was pleasing to the eye…So for sure they are not one comprehensive strategy and or edit but really just meant to show the different looks I got by tweaking filmic…The one in my last post had some masking and sky replacement using the watermark module and lots of contrast everywhere…its an in your face edit again that came from just “playing” around rather than a crafted editing strategy…
What I meant was that your four images captured each of the aspects, so if you combined the four, you would get the best result. Anyway, just thinking aloud. 
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The only thing I dislike is the sky color, however I like this the best because of the grissly contrast.
Me too 