Hi there,
Usually, right after poppies come lavender bushes 
I’m lucky if I’m quick enough to get a bee in the frame.
Have fun.
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Some details: taken 2hrs before sunset, on a sunny day (early July), behind a hill → no direct sunlight.
Here’s mine done in darktable. I reused a preset I’d created for a similar set of bee photos I took last year. I used some masked contrast enhancement to highlight details, and cropped in quite significantly. Great shot, thanks for sharing!
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maybe better presented in a cinematic frame? Not sure about that, I usually don’t like frames on digital pictures.
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My take, edited in dt 4.8, I’m still trying to find my way through the modules and hopefully come up with a workflow.
Btw, I created some masks, isolated the bee from the lavender and created two colour zones instances to play with the colours independently.
I denoised with “diffuse or sharpen” instead of the “denoise (profiled)” because it looked like it was creating dithering patterns instead of being a smooth transition.
I then switched demosaic from RCD to RCD+VNG4 because the former had some harsh artefacts when pixel-peeping the smooth gradients.
On further inspection I thought I made an error because perceived saturation is higher to me on RCD, but a quick snapshot test let me realise that it’s because there’s more colour noise which portrays (or at least gives the illusion of) a more vibrant tone in the lavender.
I’d still choose the demosaic mix, though.
RCD+VNG4 on the left, RCD on the right
