I hope you don’t mind a non-darktable submission, this capture was just too nice to leave alone…
I did two things to bring out the red tree: 1) aggressive HSL color saturation, not the nice color tool in dt, and 2) a crop to remove some of the peripheral distraction. Edit: Oh, I over-sharpened the export a bit…
Thank you all for those inputs, I like to see different approaches to a problem/idea.
Do you think I should have shot the image with other settings?
I was using aperture 8 and between 250-320 of shutter speed (hand held).
With that I always wonder if a canon L lens will perform better than the Tamron I used.
For better or worse I decided to use the sigmoid primary sliders to attenuate the blues and greens after increasing colourfulness/saturation in the color balance rgb module. I done this to bring out the red alone.