I would like to share this image for playraw. I think i have a slight halo in the sky along the ridge line. I am curious to hear what you think.
Here is my edit:
And here is the RAW with my sidecar:
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I wasn’t sure how much color or what color I should have in the sky since I never saw the original scene. I used two instances of tone equalizer to brighten the foreground. With the second instance I set the preserve details mask to no to avoid halos.
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A very tricky image.
Got pleasing results with neither sigmoid nor filmic nor tone equalizer
Resorted to old-fashioned tone curve manipulation, plus some boosted local contrast
Maybe ever so slightly, but I don’t think its really a problem at full resolution, seems to be more of an issue in the preview version and I’m not sure exactly how the forum handles that resizing exactly, there may be additional sharpening applied.
The main things that stand out to me as issues is the potential/I’m assuming a lens flare over the trees on the far left and the greyness in the middle top of the frame in the sky (It’s quite possible that the pixels there are not actually grey, but they certainly appear grey compared to the surrounds). Otherwise the overall colour and tonality is very pleasing I think. Composition and depth of field is good too, but I a little bit more breathing room in the sky above the peak on the right would have felt a bit more comfortable maybe.
Another “warm and cold” image - Fun to play with! I tried to go for cold snow, warm sky and a subtle pinkish glow on the bluish snow. Dunno if I quite got there, but maybe… Also tried to bring up a little of the deep shadow detail. 16:9 crop.
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We probably overlook the very valid approach of curves manipulation and default to either filmic or sigmoid by default. Your image is softer in the sky than mine, but unless you see the sunset in person you have no idea what it really should look like. Yours looks nice anyway.
I very much like the scene, it’s a great capture. Just that I wished for a tiny bit more space at the top (of the mountain). Anyways, thanks for the play!
Here is my totally overdone rendition…
Your foreground looks amazing, just over cooked the sky a bit I think.
Thanks for the kind words. I tried to create a colorful sky, but on a second look - you are clearly right, thats over the top. 
where is this?
My version…
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It was one of the first things I saw in this beautiful photograph.
These rocks are called Mimetholith. Here are some more examples.
Pano format is a good idea. Even so I wouldn’t cut the snow ridge:
