Here’s a darktable edit:
P1440493.RW2.xmp (7.9 KB)
The most important thing on this image was to change highlight recovery — otherwise the details in the outside photo would be clipped.
It’s also using an aggressive amount of “shadows and highlights” with a mask to preserve the details in the window.
Other notable edits:
- Velvia to punch up the colors and color zones to bring down the yellow tones a bit
- Noise reduction (especially with color) to compensate for the interior scene being underexposed
- A bit of local contrast and equalizer to bump up the contrast in the scene
- Lens correction, because this almost always is a good idea (if you have a body + lens in the database, which this did)
- Changing demosaic to a better (but slower) raw conversion algo
- …And the XMP has a few modules I played with turned off as well
I also had version of the photo that duplicated your Lightroom edit, with the hard gradient and all, but decided to rather take advantage of the fact that darktable can do a lot of things Lightroom can not (and I’ve had probably what should be considered way too much experience with LR but just a little with DT).
The overarching goal was to process the photo in a way to make the room more of a focus, rather than the scene in the background (which is still important to preserve, of course).