Black-crowned Night Heron

[streetfighter (Tim Wood)]

20250329_0068.ARW (65.1 MB)
20250329_0068.ARW.xmp (19.9 KB)

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[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

I wanted to crop and retouch signs of humanity in the background and make out the bird was in a natural environment.
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[Dito_Budi]

Nice crop @Terry . I think it works nicely in this setting.

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[Popanz (Uli)]

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[dqpcoxeas]

My version…

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[age]

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[Popanz (Uli)]

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[tankist02]

ART, trying to keep colors natural, no blown highlights, good sharpening, contrasty:

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[lightlover]

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[Popanz (Uli)]

A last one using AgX:

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[priort (Todd Prior)]

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AGX edit

[gigaturbo]

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[Popanz (Uli)]

@Popanz

A last one using AgX:

I lied about that

Special edition:

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[streetfighter (Tim Wood)]

If Vincent van Gogh drew birds and bokeh balls

[martin.scharnke]

@streetfighter - what a magnificent capture! I did indeed play with the raw but could not improve on some of the excellent renditions here. Thanks for sharing.

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

A beautiful image, indeed,

darktable 5.0.1

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