Great shot!
dt 3.4
P6052497.ORF.xmp (32.3 KB)
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Thanks for the excellent edits everyone! It’s interesting to see how everyone emphasizes different parts of the plant. And yes, the crop by @sls141 looks definitely very good, something I probably couldn’t have come up with.
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@flannelhead @Jade_NL Thanks.
The composition of the shot is very good. You have all of the foreground leaves included with the flowers very nicely. But then the details of the flowers aren’t as pronounced. 
Thus, my decision for a crop. At first I tried something like this:
But the leaves in the upper right are lost and they are nicely in focus with the light hitting them enough to stand out from the background.
Admittedly, it’s not a conventional crop, but this is “Play” Raw.
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I’m having trouble figuring out how to load your .xml file in so I can retrace the steps you took. I am on darktable 3.6.0 now.
Btw, AMAZING edit. Looks bold and colorful, but very natural.
I think this about darktable… sometimes the simple things remind me how much of a beginner I am.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the kind words. 
To see the steps I took, place the .xmp file alongside the raw (.orf) file in a folder and open the file in darktable. This way you should see my edit.
Yup, that is what I thought. Will keep trying (I think my install went a little wonky… will play with it again).
Again, stunning edit. You Olympus shooters can do so much with that little sensor That edit should be printed…
Turns out I attached the wrong XMP 
Try again, I edited the right XMP there now. Thanks for notifying about the issue!
Thanks! I actually thought of printing post cards.
I’ve not found the sensor size too restrictive especially if one practices ETTR correctly (in good light anyway). Darktable 3.6 detail masking helps as well in increasing the apparent sharpness by boosting the sharpest details. At least in images like this one, or bird images with a smooth background. Dual demosaic is probably also nice if there are further issues with noise in the demosaicing.
Anyway I think it’s the Sigma 56/1.4 lens that really shines here. A little marvel of a lens if you ask me, and very reasonably priced.
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Hey, at least it proves I’m not going crazy! Thanks for the update.
This is a great application. Being able to control the color and luminescence separately in a vignette is really cool.
Played with it myself and got the following (along with a fun crop). This is kind of a “quick and dirty” edit just to play with the vignetting idea (thanks, it is cool!)
I still love the idea of “desaturating” colors by adding white to make pastels…
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Nice edit, definitely an entire new mood for the image 
I think of it as a scene-referred replacement to the old vignetting module where also the desaturation and exposure of the corners can be separately controlled.
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Just a tip you can usually load a. jpg exported from DT as a sidecar in place of an xmp if need be.
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P6052497.ORF.xmp (20.9 KB)
Sadly, I can’t upload .cube LUTs. Editing without it will be strange. It’s using Heulandite - Rec709.cube from lutify.me Free LUTs.
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It’s not “desaturating”, it’s desaturating by-the-book. 
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Yup. You are correct (of course…)
I need to embrace this idea that if are correct in meaning, there is no need to translate for the rest of the photographic community:–> their definition is flawed, not yours (ours).
