I’m not expecting much from this, but have a go and see what you can do.
When we got to the Atlantic Bridge, there was a heron on the edge of Clachan Sound. I switched to a long lens and took this. However, the pouring rain seems to have played havoc with the focusing, or perhaps I have just got a lot of scatter off the raindrops
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I think if you really want to use this photo, you have to be very coutious and do nearly nothing. Every try to really push it will end in nothing.
Therefore my most restraint edit for at least a year - no tonemapper no extensive use of local contrast:
some RL-sharpening afterwards
An attempt in RapidRAW - but this image hits the performance limitations quickly.
AI warning: I used multiple “subject masks”.
Admins: please include *.rrdata in the list of authorized extensions in this forum - especially that we have a whole thread for RapidRAW.
Users: please remove the .txt extension from the file below.
_CTW5719.NEF.rrdata.txt (1.9 MB)
This was challenging. For better or worse, this is where I landed.
EDIT:
It helps to put your glasses on before editing…
What is RL an abbreviation for?
Richardson-Lucy (Gmic Filter)
I like @patrakov soft edit the most. Here is my edit with DT 5.3 AgX
_CTW5719.NEF.xmp (15.9 KB)
Slightly different versions of the color eq
_CTW5719.NEF.xmp (53.0 KB)
_CTW5719_01.NEF.xmp (53.0 KB)
_CTW5719.NEF.arp (13.5 KB)
