Cormorants in their courtship plumage

[Thomas_Do (Thomas)]

On my walk today I saw these cormorants with the unusual white feathers at their heads. I thought this photo might make a good play raw. Have fun.

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[kap55]

Nice shot. I have cormorant shots but have never seen them decked out like that. DT 5.

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[Popanz (Uli)]

Not that much to do on such a nice shot…

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[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

@Popanz

Not that much to do on such a nice shot…

I agree.

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[BrafMeToo]

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[Popanz (Uli)]

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[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

Nice shot. I didn’t feel the need to do much to it.
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[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

A second attempt. Same edit except in Sigmoid module increased contrast to 1.7 which I use for most photos from my camera. I also moved the skew slider to the right to increase contrast in the whiter areas.

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[Dito_Budi]

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[dqpcoxeas]

My version…

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[arctic (Andrea)]

With darktable: wb to 4300K, lens correction + denoising. SA700805.ARW.xmp (7.8 KB)
With agx-emulstion: data from Kodak Gold 200 and Endura Premier, 1.15 print exposure, 0Y-3M filters, 1.15 dir couplers, 0.4 um2 grain particle size.

[Soupy (Tim)]

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dt 5.1

[lightlover]

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[age]

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[gigaturbo]

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