Hello !
I am a beginner in photography and with darktable and I have a little difficulty to make something I like with this photo.
I’m interested to see how you manage the photo.
P1010139.RW2 (18.9 MB)
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@pixmyo, welcome here. Thank you for your first Play Raw. I don’t want to edit your first image like a headless chicken, without a proper licence. Could you please pay attention to the following post:
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Done @iarga , I won’t miss it anymore 
P1010139.RW2.xmp (18,7 KB)
Thanks for this nice play. Sorry, no Darktable, here my version with RT:
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Sorry @pixmyo! I didn’t see that the thread was about DT. I should have read your post more carefully.
Hello,
I like the night ambiance and the different light sources in this picture. I tried to accentuate this atmosphere by increasing the contrast and saturation.
Darktable 4.1
But what happened to the head of the person in the foreground?
bending down towards the temple…
Thanks for the play
Opened in RT and finished in gimp.
Thanks too to Marter I took a second look and can just see the back of his head
Not Darktable but GIMP. A little perspective adjustment and cropped. A colour boost using Colours/Components. Local adjustments to brightness and contrast. Enlarged the man in the foreground to give him more significance.
EDIT: I tried to emphasize the Red Green Blue co-presence. I discarded the top of the photo because it hadn’t a part in what I wanted to tell.
The burnt overexposed lights weren’t recoverable in any way, so I went the opposite way emphasizing them with a bloom effect that made them actors in the scene.
I kept the overall tone dark, at the risk of loosing the man without a head, and I recovered his visibility lightening the background behind him (with a parametric mask).
I cropped the image in such a way to:
I didn’t bother with noise too much because it adds a filmic look, I just removed chroma noise.
