@ggbutcher Shame that it is kind of artifact-y. JPEG quality set too low? Any chance you could upload a higher res version?
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That’s my typical modus operandi for web posting: resize to 800x600, min sharpen. I’ll upload the full-sized version tonight…
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Thanks I would also like to see it
What are my intentions. Exchange of ideas, how would other photographers/retouchers go about processing, maybe I learn something. Whole trip was about taking decent panorama. Published wide angle was rather documentary or planning where to take frames for panorama. It took me a while, about two weeks to figure out how to do processing and published frame played significant role in process.
Most interesting and upsetting for me was that people go cropping landscape without examining what they are cropping out. Here is detail from panorama processed about the same way as I processed DSC_1425.NEF
that is frequently cropped out?!
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e’re y’go:
Full-sized, jpeg qual=100, even though the JPEG wonks say anything more than 95 is overkill. So, what’s left is the min saturation, black/white point, and the squirrely curve.
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Now it is too smooth. LOL 
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Late entry using a slightly different crop.
Basics in RT and then a lot of fiddling in Gimp:
I actually forced a path for the eye to follow onto the image by dodging and burning.
Final Result:
I am already noticing two small spots where I should have been more precise with my fiddling.
But who cares
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Another one. Almost the same settings as before, but I used a ‘Graduated Filter’ and changed exposure to get a brighter foreground.
DSC_1425_grad.jpg.out.pp3 (11.9 KB)
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In my opinion (I like panorama shots very much and stitched a lot of them using a 50mm prime lens), panoramas need to have a good resulotion. That may be my personal preference, but I really like to view all the fine details (which also tell a story) a panorama shows me. Without the fine details (means just showing a blurred image) a panorama is pointless in my opinion. It may show a nice overview of the scene, but does not tell a story.
Fortunetaly your raw file (though shot as f/11) has a lot of fine details in a single shot.
I really like that and tried to get out the maximum of details out of your raw file.
Ingo
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For panorama I used Tamron 45mm. It still waiting to be printed, not very cheep fun.
Will go to 80-90mm lens when I build box with more RAM. That should sort out issue of relatively modest sensor in D610 (24MP). Talking about details, it was quite windy day and significant amount of dust in air resulted in reduced visibility. Wide angle lens is Irix 15mm and it is great for nightscapes, for example
Panorama is ~2GB tif file which can be converted to ~100MB jpeg, though it is not so simple because of size. It is also not raw file appropriate for this section.
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Sobel edge-detect to paint in some light in Gimp, then Rawtherapee for some kind of color slide look.
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This image has “Highlight Bloom” written all over it. OpenEXR export from DarkTable, tonemap in LuminanceHDR and GMIC in Gimp followed by a slight crop.
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