Editing on Darktable

[Ashok_Sengupta]

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ASG09672.dng (21.5 MB)

Members please give your suggestions for a best edit on Darktable with this image

[elstoc (Chris E)]

It would be nice to see your attempt as well

[Ashok_Sengupta]

Hello! this was my attempt

[Dito_Budi]

This is my attempt.

ASG09672.dng.xmp (39.6 KB)

[lightlover]

ASG09672.dng.xmp (16.8 KB)

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

I tried to keep it looking like a bird deep in the shady bushes, without just letting the bird crush to black,

ASG09672.dng.xmp (11.3 KB)

[Thomas_Do (Thomas)]

Welcome to pixls.us.

ASG09672.dng.xmp (12.3 KB)

[martin.scharnke]

ASG09672.dng.xmp (9.2 KB)

[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

Here is my first edit using base curve fusion to recover shadow details.
ASG09672.dng.xmp (13.2 KB)

[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

Here is another attempt using Sigmoid as the tone mapper.
ASG09672.dng.xmp (15.6 KB)

[cedric]

Just the bird - not darktable - pardon the noise …

neela pakshee

[priort (Todd Prior)]

ASG09672.dng.xmp (12.4 KB)

[Christian-B]

Hello everyone,
Welcome to the forum,
Since I don’t know the bird, I didn’t dare to shed more light on it.

ASG09672.dng.xmp (27.3 KB)
Darktable 5.1 (master)

Happy new year to all,
Christian

[Popanz (Uli)]

ASG09672.dng.xmp (25,3 KB)

[saknopper (Sander Knopper)]

ASG09672.dng.xmp (13.3 KB)

[jscfos]

Here is my attempt.

ASG09672.dng.xmp (23.3 KB)

[Christian-B]

Hello,
In my first proposal, I noticed that I overdid the digital noise processing, resulting in a significant loss of detail.
Here’s a second version

ASG09672_04.dng.xmp (34.4 KB)
Darktable 5.1 ( Master)

Happy new year to all,
Christian

[Popanz (Uli)]

A second try:

ASG09672.dng.xmp (22,2 KB)