Scarlet Tanager with lunch

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Quite noisy. I tried the new implemented AI denoising, but wasn’t really happy. So went back to classical denoising. Even though not happy as well, I found it still better than the results I got with dt Ai denoising.


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Denoised with rawforge TreeNetDenoiseSuperLight.

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She/he looks at you as if to say “don’t disturb now!”
Very nice picture, only removed chroma noise and left the other, doesn’t disturb me.
Kept it rather subdued as if in the shade of foliage. Slightly warmed the color. Slight vignette. Slight lifting of the shadows on the bird only. Bits of sharpening. Dialed back the intense orange a bit to get more structure. Heavy crop + frame.


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Here is my attempt at controlling noise with non-AI means. I am all for AI denoising when needed but I was content with this level of denoising.
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Lovely colouring, it was rather difficult to prevent clipping. And I accidentally did all of the edit with colour calibration off, so no blue hues here.
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100% crop

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RT and GIMP 2.10.38

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