Tone enhancer 2 filter applied with layer mask only to the grass. In that
filter, I only adjusted the gamma. I suppose there are other ways to do it
too.
Really nice variations so far. This is truly intreresting as I am personally stuck with an image of the place and can’t deviate much from it. But you people have a totally different approach…
@chris: What did you do to the sky, and how did you get that hazy, “spilled light” feeling?
If you are interested in details, you should be able to load the jpeg as xmp in darktable. I applied the bloom iop to get rid of details in the sky and did some teal/orange toning with the colour correction, plus a little contrast reduction/shifting with the zone system and darkening of lower left/upper right. The letter box was tricky, it was done with the frame module, to skip additional editing in GIMP.
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It got a little wild in darktable: split toning, equalizer, shadow/highlight…
IMG_8936.CR2.xmp (5.6 KB)
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Using what I remembered from the Harry Durgin low+high pass video, I threw the kitchen sink at it:
IMG_8936.CR2.xmp (7.7 KB)
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Aloha everyone. That is a beautiful shot. I just love the rice? in the foreground, and the smoke, and the old roofs. I got a little artistic with it too 
Tried to give a little bit of a sunny feel and some nice rich colors for a relaxed atmosphere. Took me 3 passes in Darktable.
I’d be glad to attach my xmp files if anyone’s interested. But I’m new to this group and don’t have permission yet.
IMG_8936_01.tif.xmp (5.2 KB)
IMG_8936.tif.xmp (5.3 KB)
IMG_8936.CR2.xmp (10.3 KB)
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Great!
My status got elevated and I was able to upload my xmp files Yay!
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Sorry, @harry_durgin! I was on work travel or I would have elevated your account as soon as I could!
(I did go ahead and push it up anyway, just to be sure).
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Sorry, I do not see the xmp. I know it’s my fault. Where is it kept?
They show up for me at the underneath the picture I posted.
Opss… I just have seen it above. Thanks.
But… Why there are also two tif.xmp? I am missing something due to my ignorance 
Thanks, Harry. I just have discovered them
I did a first pass to get the white balance, denoise, large scale tonal adjustments, etc. The 2nd pass was to get into shading and more color enhancement, then a final pass for white and black points, final sharpening and such. I saved as tif in between each pass.
I understand now 
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Hello @McCap,
I like the picture, it makes me think of my old Chuck Norris movies, like “missing in action”.
I tried an HDR again and finished it in RT with a self brewed HaldClut to vintage B&W.
The HDR made from script : one neutral, one +1.5, one -1.5 in RT → then LuminanceHDR → Fusion from HDR and neutral picture, finaly in RT with the Haldclut.
Luminance HDR 2.4.0 tonemapping parameters:
Operator: Mantiuk06
Parameters:
Contrast Mapping factor: 0.9
Saturation Factor: 1.5
Detail Factor: 20
PreGamma: 0.75
Regards,
Marc
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First off thank you @McCap for the raw and the sharing experience =) and all people participating and contributing 
their versions
This image was so interesting and it has taken me so many “approaches” to come to peace with what I was seeing. At the beggining my first re-action was to make it as beutiful as possible… {buzz} WRONG! Then I went on a light savaging journey {sinking} glub glub 
Finally I gave up and I only played around with it in photoflow to test bugs and make arguments for controversial disscusions… I know what a low life, he he. But who knew, when all is lost…
In the meantime I had being editing and grading a film, so resumed my love for tinkering with colour, also was a good excuse for cleaning up and organizing my LUT’s cage. So with no expectations, with no objective in mind I played around a little more; enough to come to realize that (for me) this was a postcard, an image of a place I’ll probably never visit but yet somehow made it into my dull existence… like a postcard a friend would send me from an exotic corner of the earth. The resulting couple of images were a mixdown result of all this blabing =)
A more dramatic one, the someone lost a leg on the rice fields and gods just don’t care kind
A strange yet pleasent enough darkish mix (a pastel snapshot of a possible Apocalypse Now {one the greatest films ever made, linked with a great docu, a great book by Munch - blink - and of course London’s The Heart of Darkness} location) of a couple old home-brewed LUTs
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