I am wondering if anyone would mind looking at an image and helping me with steps to get rid of all the noise. It may be too much noise to save the image! This is my first time posting so I am not sure if I am supposed to upload here or someplace else?
DSC03263.ARW (20.3 MB)
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you want to the play raw category. as you are new… here are some important upfront information.
Yes, please post a raw file.
Okay hopefully I did it right. Thanks
That’s a difficult task. I cropped in to better judge the noise. A lot of detail is lost. An AI denoising program might be able to achieve more.
A shutter speed of e.g., 1/2000 and F 5.6 would have allowed 10 times more light to the sensor and would have produced a much less noisy image.
I attached the darktable sidecar file, so that you can see, what I did. But I did not try anything special on this. Maybe others know some “tricks”.
DSC03263.ARW.xmp (9.3 KB)
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Thank you Thomas.
Another crop in RawTherapee and severely NR’d - for details, download the .pp3 below - it will open with any text editor.
Elissa please note that noise can not be “got rid of” … only reduced.
DSC03263.ARW.pp3 (15.0 KB)
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This is an extremely noisy image and I doubt any program will eliminate the noise. However, in darktable just turning on denoise (profiled) to default values has a significant improvement of the image (see screenshot below). I apply this to all my RAW files by default and for many images that is all I need. With your image if I try additional denoising steps I lose some of the detail in the birds and detail is already limited so I am happy to leave it as is.
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The raw-denoise tool would be beneficial here. Denoise profiled gets rid of most of the chroma noise and contrast equalizer will further reduce the luma noise. I would try to work with masking with all modules as to save as many details as possible in this image.
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- did you know that you can edit your previous posts and dont have to do one reply after the other?
- please stick to english.
Not easy but with some mask here and there… well 
Some Denoise by profile, lowpass (blur) with graduated filter masks, some soft grain for the texture, and of course more light is always useful because the shadows used to show the noise more easily.
DSC03263.ARW.xmp (133,9 KB)
darktable 5.0.1
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impressive! 
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Amazing!
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Wow! That is awesome. Thanks so much. I am going to look at what you did and try and learn.
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