Hi all,
Looking back through some shots and found this one of a Robin I quite like, but I think I missed the mark on the colour correction. and white balance. This was taken on a bright spring day, but under a tree canopy. Curious to see what you can do with it.
DSC_9640.NEF (23.6 MB)
DSC_9640.xmp (18.4 KB)
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Hi Terry;
Thank you for sharing this - it’s a beautiful capture, but also a challenge.
It’s almost 21:00 here, I have a variety of electrical lights on, and even disabling night colours on my monitor, I cannot trust my eyes. However I have had some success profiling in daylight my D7200, and I took a gamble that your D7000 would be similar for this capture.
Very high ISO, and I will at some future stage use some of the techniques shared by another user (@jscfos) on one of my play_raws: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/rescue-of-extreme-iso-capture/45315/80. For now, a quick attempt:
Nice capture. Noise was hard work. A slower shutter speed would lower the ISO and make noise less of an issue in my view. But still a nice shot. I used the contrast equalizer module to try and sharpen and reduce noise as well as two instances of denoise (profiled). Processed in DT 5.3.
DSC_9640.NEF.xmp (22.8 KB)
@Terry_Dooher the posted xmp is not corresponding to your shown edit. The jpg in the post is surprisingly noisefree.
Thank you for sharing this nice bird!
I didn’t remove all the noise in order to retain some detail
Lovely capture. My try. Playing around with various modules, keeping the robin in focus
Robin - DSC_9640.NEF.xmp (19.2 KB)
Just testing the nind-denoise workflow, went with RCD-dual for a little more details. WB was on the white flower to get a little warmer.
EDIT: tried 20 RL-deblur iterations instead of 10 for sharper details.
Nice work @Popanz You’ve managed there what I couldn’t and got some good, soft white in the blossom without blowing the highlights on the branches. 
@sillyxone That’s impressive. On a par with DxO, at least at first glance. I’ll have to take a look at that.
@Terry - You’re right. I do tend to shoot standing subjects at ~1/320 or 1/500, but this guy had been hopping about a lot and I was still in 1/2500. I like my D7000, but it doesn’t do too well in these conditions.
