Had great fun with this image - thanks 
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I have to say I was stunned how underexposed the image was and how easily it could be recovered to correct exposure. This is a beautiful example of how the Fuji X-T3 is ISO invariant. I had never experienced this before. I wish my Canon and Nikon sensors worked in the same way. If I had underexposed to this degree with my cameras the result would be crap. I have developed a new found respect for the Fuji sensor.
Here is my edit. I did use the shadow and highlights module to pick up the shadow detail. I appreciate there are many users who would prefer to not use this module anymore and would instead use another module such as tone equalizer. But I tend to like the shadow highlights module for its ease of use and the way it picks up color and contrast in shadows. Personal taste in the end.
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A nice bird! And great what can be recovered from this strongly underexposed frame!
Agfa Precisa 100 LUT
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@hatsnp, let me know if this is going too far OT… I couldn’t resist adding an Australian robin to the thread. We have a few kinds actually, this is a male Scarlet Robin, the only one I have a half-decent photo of. Not nearly as good as the OP though 
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I agree. I downloaded what looked like a black square…hit the exposure autopicker set to 50% and boom amazing image already if I did nothing more… that was crazy how clean it was…
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Nope this is a FOSS forum not a photography forum…you can use commercial things as a comparison or reference but the forum is not about Adobe stuff and other software…
The list is here or any other FOSS stuff you might stumble across…
EDit PS…welcome hopefully you will explore some of the open source stuff…
Ok then, thanks.
I am just blown away by the Fuji sensors ability. Makes my Nikon, Canon, Pentax and Olympus sensors look second rate. I can see why a Fuji shooter would laugh at the concept of exposing to the right. Maybe I need to take a closer look at the Fuji cameras. I like their retro style, but didn’t realize how good the sensors were. Forgive me for posting off tangent here.
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It is a good place to improve your processing skills. It is also a great place to compare the strengths and weaknesses of various programs. I would really encourage you to explore Darktable. I have shifted from Lightroom to Darktable. I am not knocking Lightroom. It is a well designed, intuitive and easy to use program producing great results, however I just find Darktable so much more fun to play with. The developers are doing a really good job aggressively improving it with new modules and improvements. Welcome to the forum.
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This was fun!
I got a decent image by just setting the white point really low, equivalent to upping the exposure. Still, a rather tame filmic curve gave it the touch of contrast. I messed around with denoising, but decided to ditch that in favor of just using the export resize to obliterate it. Finally, a crop to put the bird in good emphasis.
I think the feather textures mitigated any adverse effect of the underexposure. This camera also pulls up well. Rendered at 800x600, this rendition is meant to view full-sized, put away your pixel-peep pants here:
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Perfectly fine. I always enjoy seeing and learning about new beautiful birds. Feel free to share anytime! I like his little white patch above the beak 
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I believe the newer cameras from Nikon, Canon, Olympus etc also have iso invariant sensors, so no need to change systems and have to reacquire new glass! It really is fun to “push” an image to such extremes and get a usable product out of it 
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@hatsnp Thank you for the play_raw 
So this is my version - amazing how much DT could recover. I tried to keep it a bit darker than I normally would, as I think it works well in this case.
@Terry I think the Colour Balance RGB module is amazing for editing tonality and great in replacing S&H - maybe worth a go?
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I agree that the perceptual brilliance grading options in Color Balance RGB module are really good and worth learning. However, I would not see it as a replacement for S&H. S&H produces a different look. S&H seems to reveal detail by applying some sort of sharpening, it also affects the color and contrast. For some images S&H is detrimental as it will reveal more noise, but for some images the extra punch it puts into the shadows looks good. I see these two modules as just different and recommend picking the best tool for the job. What I love about DT is the numerous alternative options to tackle problems such as dark shadows. Thanks for your suggestion. I feel I underutilize the color balance RGB options for tweaking shadows and highlights.
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I also love the many options darktable offers.
Thank you for detailing S&H - I was not aware it also applies some sharpening. So this is yet another option to explore 
Often shadows look dull and while tone equalizer and Color balance can brighten the shadows, S&H adds punch to the shadows by lifting the colors, contrast and details. I am not saying this is always desirable, but for many images it is. I often use a combination of S&H and Tone equalizer to harness the best of both modules.
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Its more of an effect on local contrast that could be perceived as a sharpening … the tweaking of the compression and radius can really alter the look from the default…in a good and bad way…
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