10 years ago: Rainbow bee-eaters

[martin.scharnke]

So, 10 years ago to the day I captured these Rainbow bee-eaters.
Darktable has come a long way since then, and I have become moderately proficient in using it. I get a much more pleasing result now. This is already a fairly tight crop, although one could argue for a different framing leaving out the twig encroaching from the left.

How would you process it?

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[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

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[BrafMeToo]

Used darktable’s new RAW neural denoise (blended at 75%), along with non-local means profiled denoise.

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[Popanz (Uli)]

I’m massively torn on this image. Usually I like to go close on animals. So something like this would my edit on this.

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But for some reason (besides the missing resolution), I somehow like the overall scene and I prefer this one:

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(more or less the same edit with a much wider crop)

[gwbarn]

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[Zbyma72age]

RT and GIMP 2.10.38

[lylejk (Lyle Kroll)]

Bit pooped (so likely made a few mistakes), but still felt they would be better, side by side.

[martin.scharnke]

Ok. But how? Did you mask out the birds, rotate the pic and then paste the unrotated birds?

[Jetze]

Lovely couple,

There’s a nice depth to this photo. Hope I’ve done them right!

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[my_dad]

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[lylejk (Lyle Kroll)]

Pretty much guessed right. For a filter guy like me, that’s a lot of work, but fun work. lol