play_raw attempt on my high ISO dog running image.

As I think I understand this, y’all want the actual CR2 & Sidecar file to play with? Or just the CR2 file alone? I am taking the plunge, hoping people will be civil. I know my gear is old…

This would be the high-noise dog running in the backyard.

Let me know what y’all need/want in the future, but here is a Google Drive link to the files.

Google Drive link to my files.

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Hi, when you’re creating a Playraw thread, you’re expected to…

  • supply the RAW file (most people including me upload the files directly here)
  • upload the matching sidecar file from your editor if you’ve made any edits yourself… optionally upload a <1MB JPEG of your edit too
  • attach a CC-BY-SA license (it’s added automatically if you use the template when selecting a category)

So overall you’re just missing the license here :thinking: If you can’t edit your posts, just copy and send this text in a new reply:

This file is licensed [Creative Commons, By-Attribution, Share-Alike](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

This file is licensed Creative Commons, By-Attribution, Share-Alike.

Use and abuse! :grinning:

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Howdy, @Vente
I am going to assume that the site doesn’t want a 26.8 MB file uploaded.
When creating the post, it brings up past posts that seem similar, and more than one person has asked where to host the large raw file. That’s why I used Google Drive. Was this incorrect?
The side showing older post is really very “cool”, helplful.

You can upload it directly here…we just keep any JPG export sizes of low quality as they can be recreated from the raw and sidecar…


20260827_0024_denoised_SL.dng.xmp (9.9 KB)

Denoised with RawForge, super light.

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First, it needed a powerful denoise treatment. Then, the back and rear of the dog kept going blue on me, so I had to take that out by brute force.


20260827_0024_raw-denoise.dng.xmp (8.7 KB)

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@priort Gotcha, thank you.

@Tim, you got the colors right. The fence was just replaced last month. The grass is a bit too green. Everything is dying here. The heat is brutal. But that’s my baby girl.

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You sure did make Callie pop out. Also showing the slowly dying grass.

I felt the noise was always going to beat me on this image. I maxed out hot pixels module to get rid of the red dots. I used a tamed version of raw denoise module. Two different instances of denoise profiled and used the sharpen module for sharpening with a higher threshold to avoid sharpening the noise. This was all non-AI.
20260827_0024.CR2.xmp (15.5 KB)

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Feed the non-AI denoising result into the AI denoising module in DT and applied denoise at 12% and sorry the result is terrible on this image in my hands.

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Sorry for multiple posts but I hope the results are relevant in how to handle such noisy images. With this edit I first applied AI Raw denoise @ 34% in DT and then edited the resulting DNG in a similar fashion to my first post. I feel this is the best edit of my three here.

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I kept mine normal as well but I liked the B&W look you did for this.
3 modules for denoising, and Diffuse or Sharpen to try to put some detail back.
I found myself fighting colour casts more than usual, with CB-RGB and RGB primaries.


20260827_0024.CR2.xmp (23.0 KB)

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@Terry @Thomas_Do @Tim @gwbarn
The noise was part of the image. I never intended to recover color and as much detail as y’all did. Which I must say is very impressive!

I wonder what it would look like if you took the results you were able to pull out and then desaturated them - just a little. Give it back that muted night feel. That’s something I should play with.

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Thanks for sharing! I love the story behind this photo of you getting out your old gear and having fun with your dog in the yard :slight_smile: !

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Amazing goofy photo :smiley:

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Terriers and the zoomies. Big brother is a Rottie mix, and she completely dominates him. Fun to watch if they didn’t look so darn dusty/dirty!

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You’re free to use an external storage service as long as people can get the files :smile: with really large files it’s preferred…

Images are worse as they load on click and can consume data plans. If people didn’t compress images then the hosted storage would also suffer a lot more compared to just a RAW file at the beginning of a thread.