Go around! Landing pad not clear!

Some playful photos of a house wren feeding her hatchlings (fledglings?) behind my house last spring. Both photos are from the same burst, instants apart. The youngster did not clear the landing area. As a professional pilot, this situation strikes a nerve for me, lol

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*edited to fix a file that did not upload

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Nice shot.


2024-06-15 105026-1207117.rw2.xmp (36.8 KB)


2024-06-15 105026-1207124.rw2.xmp (37.4 KB)

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2024-06-15 105026-1207117.rw2.xmp (9.1 KB)

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I did this one, differently.


2024-06-15 105026-1207124.rw2.xmp (9.5 KB)

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Beautiful capture. It didn’t need many editing steps to get a good image. I once again resorted to the color zones module to tweak the green background for a brightness and saturation than appealed to me.
2024-06-15 105026-1207124.rw2.xmp (12.8 KB)

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Here is a second attempt when I concentrated on the slight noise in the green background. I limited my sharpening with the details threshold slider to avoid sharpening noise. I then applied astrophoto denoise to the green portion of the image using a parametric mask based on hue.
2024-06-15 105026-1207124.rw2.xmp (13.8 KB)

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2024-06-15 105026-1207117.rw2.xmp (20,7 KB)

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Ouch!


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My version…

2024-06-15 105026-1207117.rw2.xmp (23,2 KB)

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2024-06-15 105026-1207117.rw2.xmp (22.0 KB)

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Very fun, thanks for sharing.


2024-06-15 105026-1207124.rw2.xmp (13.1 KB)

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RawTherapee 5.11 update on my edit with proper denoise and local denoise, manual curve etc

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