Nice B+W version. So far, your b+w is my favorite take of the others’ edits for an “edit I’d consider making a print of.”
This is kind of fascinating, having been there, I experienced a sense of bleakness of the desert landscape, which was reflected in a somewhat washed out desaturated edit. However, most everyone else seemed to want to pump up the saturation a bit.
Using RawTherapee dev 5.4-409-g99caa76f7
DSC0016.jpg.out.pp3 (11.5 KB)
And a BW version
DSC0016-2.jpg.out.pp3 (11.6 KB)
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Thanks,
You’re too kind. There are many people here that are WAY better than me! I realized I didn’t even use denoise on the edit. I will attach a new sidecar file with the denoise method I like to use.
Thanks again!
DSC00163_04.ARW.xmp (20.8 KB)
You’re correct. The new sidecar file I added only cleaned up the sky.
I guess I just don’t agree with heavy saturation as much that the other people used, and as to denoise, the only denoise that would be necessary would be chrominance noise reduction, in the case of making a very saturated edit. My edit did produce some luminance noise, but that was due to me wanting a filmic look, using RL deconvolution sharpening with no thresholding or dampening (my default preset).
RawTherapee 5.4-dev Dehaze tool… and Kodak TMax 100 sim, edged down to let some color bleed thru.
DSC00163.ARW.pp3 (12.3 KB)
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One with the Retinex tool on top of Dehaze, slightly chromatified and brightened in the CIECAM02 module:
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Second try, “correct” wb, and new filmic tool tweakings to reduce contrast (regarding my first version) and pop out shadows. Pretty cool this new tool!
DSC00163.ARW.xmp (4.4 KB)
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Maybe I pushed a bit too much… but you know, some days I just feel to lazy to be delicate 
Developed with darktable: DSC00163.ARW.xmp (6.6 KB)
Interesting how the square crop seems to add a lot of depth…
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@Waveluke thanks for sharing the mcruhhet raw. It is funny how something more to the abstract side of the spectrum yields such different approaches… so I wonder if it’s because no reference… anyway, @Thomas_Do I guess from up there the carpet is more homogeneous, yours is my fav version 
. @heckflosse tight crop man!!! @HIRAM like the colours and the shower curtain approach, wach the mercury in the tunna! @yteaot a bit too crispy, but those pastels gave me a hard-on 
RT_dev
then gimp and gmic; by the end I had to de-contrast the image… we have the unhealthy tendency… Also used a washed out (~30& lum and 45% ch) kodak tetrachrom 400 stock LUT below which helped a nicer colour relation between the hot hils and darker BKGD (of course, but absolutely of coursely) punctuated by our friend the trees!! Viva los trees!!!
tetajhromo_400_emulotron_ripof.cube.zip (53.9 KB)
Cheers
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Here my take in darktable. I tried to push the contrast in the colors.
This landscape looks so familiar… 
I may have seen a similar image used in multiple image processing related papers.
Dehaze algorithm papers?
Also here is exactly the location on Google Maps, with an approximate depiction on the angle and subject of the photo, if you are curious. The angle shows what was in the shot, converging to the location of camera, the balcony of the resort center. This was on a very remote native american reservation, so no Google Street View, unfortunately.
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You are welcome. What do you mean by calling my raw “mcruhhet”?