Thank you very much Jonas! I did not think that was this simple 
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and here’s my try… I’m impressed with this camera’s sensor, such a step forward! I will definitely consider upgrading to this from my Sony a5000
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Thank you
I often like a bit of pink in these types of shots, and I softened the water with a grad mask as I feel the relative high detail in the water is somewhat distracting from the overall scene.
I found the same, so concentrated on the overall feel rather than trying to force detail and colour out of low light.
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Beautiful! Castello al Lago Toblino (Trento)? Would like to be there
Immanuel.
Yes, good catch! 
I really love this one. Would love to see your xmp file.
I looked around, but wasn’t able to find it on my drive… 
I’m honored that you would ask,
Harry
Do you maybe have the exported JPEG file? It seems that this forum strips the metadata from files, otherwise we could just extract the XMP from it.
I think there are several way of handling shots like this. I might try another but can’t get macrofusion to work. With that I would produce 3 different exposures from the raw file and blend them. The same thing can be done in the gimp with layers and masks etc. It’s hard to predict the result via macrofusion so in some ways GIMP is better but it takes longer.
I started off with a full sized flat image from the raw file via rawtherapee.
UnveilCastle.jpg.out.pp3 (9.3 KB)
I recollect briefly using tone mapping.
I then switched to Fotoxx to use it’s tone mapping. It has a curve that controls what contrast levels are tone mapped. Heavy sharpening first using a 5 pixel rad on the full sized image. Then tone mapping followed by selective curves work on the sky and land. This left a selection line on the high contrast boundaries. A blend brush has been added recently so I used that on the line. New tool and I think it could do neater job than this. Then reduction and the usual post reduction sharpening.
Lastly a bit more brightening in places using the gimp. The usual desaturated inverted layer in soft light mode but I also used curves on it so that mainly brightened dark areas.
At this point I would probably normally go through all of the steps again.
