And Lightroom is a hybrid electric toyota! 
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I went for a more subdued look in monochrome, but was keen to bring out the thorns on a plant that is regarded as “invasive” in Australia. (So badly so that I’ve seen some several metres high in our “high country”.)
I think I could have boosted contrast a little more (and I did this, and it’s included in the sidecar file) but I was a little concerned about the holes in the leaves standing out too much, whereupon “they just didn’t look right.” I wanted the thorn to be nicely prominent. I also thought a crop was a good thing.
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If anyone loads the sidecar file alongside the original image, then the topmost entry in the history stack has the contrast/brightness/saturation boost I mentioned.
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Nice interpretation. Also I, in this case, would have focused on vivid colors (but I have to say that @ggbutcher’s B&W is even more vivid than red). You have seen correctly: the fence delimits the beginning of the path which then enters a wood at first sparse, sometimes interrupted by meadow basins where in summer almost wild cows graze, and then thicker and darker between beech, fir and pine trees .
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Wow! Looks like it came out of a jeweler’s workshop.
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Complimenti, hai isolato molto bene la foglia di rovo dallo sfondo, ottenendo un bell’effetto.
Congratulations, you have isolated the bramble leaf from the background very well, obtaining a nice effect.
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@ggbutcher: Compiled and installed just now. I haven’t used it until now though, since I’ll need some time to go through your videos and make some tests.
Thank you!
EDIT: corrected a mispelled word.
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Thank you, @Tim. I always love your interpretations because you tread lightly, you never overuse the powerful tools you have in your hands. You fix a thing or two by reasoning about it, but you never push the boundaries of what is believable and what is not. The final look is always as natural as it could be. I’m made of the same substance as you.
At the same time I also love to see some “extreme” cooking made by others and sometimes I also like to play with the super-power of the digital.
To me, you represent the oak firmly anchored to the ground. You are a certainty, a secure term of comparison.
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Very nice, too. You captured the very hardly perceivable blue reflections of the sky in the leaf.
I like it.
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I agree with your words.
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I appreciate your comments, Luke. I am almost always aiming for a realistic interpretation of the scene as I envision that it may have been in “real life”.
Thought I would try adding a little green to the leaves. Still learning how to get masks to work for me.
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Which software is that?
Interesting Play here!
My try using RT 5.9 dev. I tried to isolate the leaf by colour and desaturate/darken the rest
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Your English is just fine.
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I think you don’t have the basics of the masking power. Do you use Darktable?
If so, and if you have no problem understanding English spoken language go through the videos listed in this page: resources | darktable [the list is at the end of the web page].
If you are not using Darktable let us know which software you have adopted. I’m also a newbie here, but if I can be of any help… just ask.
(Dynamic Rance Compression)