I think the bird is absolutely fine. Good brightness, good clarity, not much to complain about. I’m struggling more with the greens. All in all a little bit too bright and too saturated for my taste.
Just as a hint and of course just my personal opinion which can certainly be disputed.
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Thank you @gigaturbo for the raw files!
Finally on vacation and with some spare time to play and experiment. Here is my take using a custom film simulation tool.
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This blue flower version from dqpcoxeas talks to me.
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Just a bit of play with the ultimate masking tool (aka cropping) and creating lightness contrast by lifting the greens via the new color equalizer. I also liked the fully desaturated / highlighted greens that bring up the falling rain droplets.
DSCF8034.RAF.xmp (17.9 KB)
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I’m using color balance RBG to dodge and burn in darktable with drawn/parametric masks, but the Selective Editing tool of RT seems to have a very powerful automatic masking strategy 
The Ilford series of tutorial is very nice! Will improve my analog darkroom skills with this 
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The more you know about analog, the better your digital will be!
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