rescue of Extreme ISO capture

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Thanks for the opportunity to play with an interesting image!

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Key ingredients for my edit:

  1. restrict most things that emphasize noise (eg local contrast) to lightness (blend mode),
  2. similarly, do things that decease noise on chromaticity blend mode,
  3. blur the background a bit,
  4. add a bit of saturation to the orange and blue plumage (colors otherwise left alone),
  5. give color smoothing passes in the demosaicing algorithm (improvements above 3 are marginal though)
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