Thanks for sharing! Here is my attempt: slightly above 1 minute for a basic version that I’m already happy with. Then, 3 more minutes for some (light) colour grading.
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basic version:
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with grading:
Here’s the arp: IMG_6453.CR2.arp (35.5 KB)
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My standard fully-automatic raw processing gives an equalized (ie with a flat histogram) sRGB version. This is often ugly, but works fine with this image. Wall time: 2 minutes, with zero time from me.
I like the soft, gentle, placid atmosphere. I want to keep that.
I don’t like the highlighted waterfall at the left side. The simplest cure is to crop 10% from the left, creating a better balance. Wall time: 10 seconds from computer and me.
Sharpness could be added, and saturation could be boosted. In my opinion, both would detract from the image.
EDIT: I should add that the image could also be de-hazed. But I like the haze. It adds depth and mood.
Took 2.5 hours because I and my computer are slow, and I was busy cooking, eating and browsing discuss. Too crunchy where the light meets the leaves – oh well. PF+G’MIC. Like @snibgo’s, mostly automated, except exceedingly slow because each time I change a parameter it takes forever to run.
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Struggled with this as well. Time-boxed myself to 10 minutes. Here is the Result:
Lot’s of corner cutting, here. Rather than actually balancing the exposure I just compressed the hell out of it. Had some trouble with noise in the shadows, just clipped it off. And then there is the colors, not quite sure but I struggled with getting anything realistic. Almost felt a bit like mixed artificial lighting. Still if I’d do this for a living I’d probably be starving by now. 
Did this on my Surface 3, which handicapped my time. Also, found that rawproc wasn’t using the black subtract correctly, so I had to accommodate that. About 8min:
Rather non-conventional filmic parameters to lift the shadows instead of crisping them, and an aggressive saturation.
Now, need to find a better way to handle black subtraction. This is one of the reasons I do PlayRaw; I’m a Nikon shoppe, so seeing other cameras’ raws is beneficial…
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My attempt. Didn’t check the exact time, but should be around 10 mins. I actually did one version in about 3 mins, then went and played with some other raw files. Then came back and edited this some more. I’ve tried adding some haze around the borders.
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Thanks for sharing this nice landscape !
I also had difficulties with the picture, that one took me about 10 minutes. It seemt to me that darktable recognized it as jpg instead of raw ?!
Second take. This time with RT instead of PF and with CLAHE instead of my custom commands on the illuminance component. Finally with a bump in chroma to compensate for the greying of CLAHE. 10 min this time, which includes opening RT to saving the final image.
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Although the speed-edit challenge was fun, this one is worth giving it some time and effort. So here’s my second, take-it-slow, edit:
dreamy.landscape_01.cr2.xmp (9.3 KB) dt 3.0.1
BTW: Thanks for sharing!
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And because I’m trying to learn darktable and use it more, just on 5 minutes.
IMG_6453.CR2.xmp (9.7 KB)
black and white: 13 mn + additionnal contrast on jpg in GIMP
a-IMG_6453.jpg.out.arp (11.4 KB)
Gorgeous automn interpretation : 17mn
a-IMG_6453-1.jpg.out.arp (11.4 KB)
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where is this landscape?
I wouldn’t be able to find it again 
The vilage is called “Marzysz” (en: “you’re dreaming”;)) It’s ~10km from Kielce, near Borków. In general it’s Holly Cross region in Poland.
Use a GPS logger on your phone while you roam!! 
thanks for the answer
