I think it is quite a spectacular and stunningly sharp image! When closely inspected in DarkTable the back wing retains a lot of detail so I exported as openexr to be able to do some decent tonemapping in LuminanceHDR without losing quality. After that, I applied GMIC’s “Freaky Details” on a 50% transparent layer to bring out the feather detail and repositioned the bird with the “Liquid Rescale” plugin so it would have more area to “fly into” on the right. [EDIT]Added a highlight pass layer to brighten things up a bit…
