[Play Raw] Processing a very high-contrast raw

Here is my take. Required lots of tuning and patience. Doing this from a sad screen so I don’t know how good or bad it looks. In my estimation, it is average looking compared to the other attempts. However, I hope it recovered enough of the sky and greenery to satisfy @isagalaev.

  1. PhotoFlow
    a) Linear Rec.2020 with negative clipping.

  2. gmic
    a) Curve to remove linearity.
    b) Subdue details (guided smoothing) in prep for #3.

  3. CLAHE (wish gmic had it).

  4. gmic cont.
    a) Expose shadows (luminosity mask).
    b) Curve to increase contrast + brighten shadows, stretch chroma, recover details (guided sharpening).
    c) Prep for sharing (contrast, resize, fp to jpg).

Enjoy!

[Edit: uploaded wrong version. This one is slightly sharper.]