Here’s mine edited with GIMP 2.9, G’MIC film emulation Fuji 160C set to higher, a slight color adjustment to balance the reds and bring out more green, custom curves, wavelet sharpening and grain.
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Rawtherapee and Gimp (and some Nik Cfx in Gimp)
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Here’s my go at this one. Done in Darktable to bring out the red accordion and minimize the graffiti colors, tightened up the crop. and did some adjusting to the highlights and shadows via a few methods.
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Is there any chance you could re-upload the raw file for us? I’m going through and making sure to archive all the playraw files on our servers so we don’t end up with dead links…
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Seem to have got to this one a bit late. All done in Lightzone …
On top of the default RAW adjustments and RAW Tone Curve, added a Zone Mapper to improve the contrast, a Relight to bring out some more detail in the shadows, a ‘Crisp’ style, some sharpening and a ZoneMapper Vignette. Oh, and a crop.
Cheers,
Biff
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I really liked the image. Tried to give a harsh, despondent mood. Shadows seem to creep on him from above!!
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Thanks. Interesting one. I didn’t notice todd’s crop but thought I’d try a heavy crop and have a go at the old gritty black and white approach to similar photo’s but in colour.
Mixed fotoxx,rt and gimp work.
John
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Nice shot @Carmelo_DrRaw! Was joy to play with 
Done with Darktable - some basic adjustments - and GIMP. In GIMP, darkened background and lightened face of musician. Than with G’MIC plug-in applied PictureFX Film emulation “GoldFX - Spring breeze” preset:
Interesting results! I’m glad this thread has been revived!
@Ajohn I like the crop and overall contrast in your edit. The only thing that disturbs me a bit is the fact that the clipped highlights are grey and not totally white (see for example the edge of the hat).
@s7habo I really like the separation you did between the musician and the background. The only thing I would correct are the color casts in the bright regions in front of the shoes.
@patdavid and other pixls.us site developers: this is really one of the cases where I’d love to have a browsable gallery of all the submitted images. So I’ve started wondering: would it be possible to submit the pictures to a gallery linked to the thread, instead of into the post itself? No idea if this would be technically possible, but would be really great!
On my list of things to look into once I’m not working 60+ hours a week 
Take your time my friends. (I am just as if not more busy. I am here because it helps me relax 
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@Carmelo_DrRaw. Very extreme highlight recovery in RT and some curve work as I thought that leaving it white and clipped detracted from the rest. It’s actually bought out some detail and I thought is effectively a shade of the hat.
You have the honour of posting the shot I have done most work on from this site. I’ve wanted to try the general effect for some time but lacked a suitable subject.
John
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I thought of giving this another try. This time a rather stark BW version!
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