I was deleting old images and came across this one. The image has some technical/compositional problems, and is too noisy for me to print (at least with my denoise skills). Maybe it would be a fun image for a play_raw though?
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Now that’s eye contact 
This one was a bit fiddly. Many of the things I wanted to do emphasized the noise, so I kept fiddling until I settled on this.
A somewhat clandestine version:
regarding noise I wouldn’t fear to much. A print is more tolerant regarding noise than a monitor.
DT 5.3 with AgX. As for noise when printing the ink tends to bleed a little which reduces the look of the noise compared to the monitor. Also, film use to have grain and that didn’t prevent us making great prints.
DSC03111.ARW.xmp (15.4 KB)
@age I always forget about astro denoise. Also, adding grain to even things out is something I had not though of.
@Terry I am on 5.2.1 but I reset demosiac and had a quick peak at the history stack. The second denoise (profiled) instance had a very different UI. Is that new in 5.3?
Regarding printing: I did a small test print on my first editing run of that image and did not like the way things were heading. So I pretty much nixed the idea. I could probably print an 8x10 without it being too annoying, but not larger. I may retry the denoising and print another test.
GIMP.
I gave it a colour-boost using the colour-mixer. Slight increase of contrast.
No attempt at noise reduction.
Well I feel dumb now. Thanks for clarifying!
A bucolic scene in the forest, only missing the fairies and elves. It seemed to me that the forest was the stage for a main “actor”…
The dark and moody renders (you and @Popanz ) are quite pleasing!
This time not really dutch paintery. You master lots of styles…!
In other words, I like the painter effects very much!
Kind regards, Jetze
