I know, I know… I’m completely drifting away from reality but hey, you gotta experiment, right? 
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Nice one @Jade_NL !
I’m playing a bit here with channel mixer in color calibration module 
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Yes, yes you do!
You might be in the correct place, this being play raw… 
I like this one! It has that infrared feel, but then again it doesn’t.
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Really like the picture, Jacques. Several nice edits.
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That’s a really nice edit with some nice nuances. Love the crop(!) although it does bother me somewhat that it isn’t exactly 1:1, but I’m sure that’s my neurotic compulsion speaking 
Thanks. I’ve always cropped to fit as I liked best, and for my own photos that I have had printed, I put a border around them in GIMP to bring them to a standard size. Makes them looked matted.
Looking at it as 1:1, I think I like it better.
Although I like 1:1, I also like a slightly wider image since 1:1 looks tall in the forum.
Here’s the 1:1. It accents the tree more. Some days I like this better; some days the other, but if it must be a standard size, I think this is best.
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You are right about that. The tree is situated in a more pleasing spot in the 1:1, but If I switch back and forth between your 2 edits I do see the appeal of the first one. Nice edits either way though.
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I find the tree is a problem. Many edits end up with black branches which i think was the shadow but it gets distorted maybe by contrast or something but it ends up looking like an artifact to me.
I think I know what you mean: could you crop an example for us?
If that comment was for me I’ll see if I can find the best example or some anyway…
Some version of this shows up in most of the edits mine I did a while back as well…
I get it now. It isn’t just that the branches are darkened but the other halves are brightened, making an ugly unnatural outline. I don’t think my entry suffers from that because I essentially normalized the brightness and focused on colour contrast instead.
Yeah, It’s a slippery slope if you want to enhance the light. I was fighting with this as well and in the end settled for what it is now… ::
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I modified filmic rgb and local contrast 1. To take out more contrast of the trunk and branches from this point requires open-heart surgery. 
Edit: Actually, there is one easy change: turn off filmic altogether. I like the result even better.
And a little work on exposure.
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Edit 2: When you look at the perfect glow of the sunlight across the fields and the marvelous clouds, this is Ansel Adams-like in capturing the right moment.
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Well this is the orange and teal look! 
I meant as a general look. This was one of the motifs where it fits wonderfully.
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I love seeing creative edits done based on my Play Raws. It’s always interesting to see what others come up with.
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