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Emergence

As I told you all a coupe of weeks ago (see my Where the thoughts have no name) I have recently unearthed a folder with an Autumn sunrise session taken at a precious location in November 2017 - a magic place I love very much. To give a contest of the situation I am quoting below from the text accompanying my A wordless dialogue, the only photo from that session I uploaded at that time.

[... At last] I resorted to my favourite enchanted garden - a small, peaceful corner of land along the valley of the river Adda: just downstream Lake Como, just before the river enters the Padan Plain - a handful of meanders and a plot of wetlands where secret, ancient words spiral in the air along with the breaths of the river and the earth.
As the sky was slowly brightening a dense, shapeless mist rose from the river - a precious feature of the location, but... well, it looked too dense that morning. Every hint of detail was engulfed and nullified by that milky, glowing nothingness. However I shot a lot of bracketings, faintly hoping that in post-processing (thanks to the raw magic of RAW files) I would be able to make something emerge from that apparent nothingness. But, believe me, it was a bit frustrating - quite a poor day to seize, as an impudent voice kept repeating in the back of my mind.
The sun was already climbing above the horizon, largely ignoring both the frustrating blanket of fog hovering over the river and my little feelings about it - and lo!, suddenly the world was emerging all around me, like the restored backup of a long-forgotten dream. [etc.]

This bracketing has been captured as I was merely trusting the magic of raw files; silent ghosts of mist were wandering all around me, whispering secret words, and only the faintest glow was suggesting that the sun was rising, after all.

I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot). Raw files processed with Darktable.
As to Darktable... It is a really wonderful piece of software, but I am aware of my being still a novice; so I hope that somenone experienced in Darktable reads these words and can help me. When processing these raw files I have seen something emerge from a milky nearnothingness and all was perfect. I have exported the raw files, as usual, in TIFF 16-bits uncompressed format and... and now there were bands through the mist - especially in the underexposed shot; nothing like that in Darktable, though, just in the exported TIFFs... Any suggestion about this?

Taken in: Italy / Lombardy / Olginate / Fornasetta Superiore (show map)

Taken on: November 19, 2017

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Camera: Nikon D5100, f/9.0, 1/5 sec, 14mm (=21mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D5100
Aperture:	f/9.0
Exposure Time:	0.2 sec (1/5)
Focal Length:	14mm (35mm equivalent: 21mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	+1/3 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	GIMP 2.10.2
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