Foolin’ around with dt 4.2
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The bounce light on the water is quite extreme…you can go with it or desaturate and maybe darken it… it might work in BW actually as the bird isn’t massively colorful…what bird is it…
The bird is some kind of ibis, not sure of the exact model. 
I kinda like the green color, since it’s (as you implied) about the only color in the shot. I masked and darkened it on my version. I was shooting another angle when he (?) started working his way up toward, and eventually right past, me.
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Looks like this one… so could I guess have pushed the color a bit in the feathers towards this…but as you say you had shadows
Something must be amiss with your link, but I thought the result was kinda funny… 
Apparently Adobe equates “Birds On Trees” with Instagram and accounting icons…
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Bin chicken
Yep, that’s him / her.
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Nice easy shot to process because of good exposure. I also thought for 1600IDO the grain was very reasonable and I only applied the default denoise profiled settings. I used filmic auto tune levels, shadow and highlights module and a second instance of expose masked to the dark section of the wing to lift exposure by 1/3rd of a stop there. I like the reflection of the bird so I kept that in my crop. Thanks for sharing the image.
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Yeah, I was looking at the overall image balance when I cropped and it would’ve been good to include more reflection in my version. Nice processing.
Thanks.
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My attempt definitely goes against my taste which generally prefers not to deviate too much from the reality of natural light and colours, nevertheless I wanted to try to artificially increase the chromatic range and the brightness gradient.
Darktable 4.2.0.
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Yeah, that was kinda the aim in my original. The green color there isn’t too far from what I recalled (at the time of processing) it being. The sun was really sending a lot of reflected green light off the trees. Nothing direct but lots of greenish ambient light. Problem is, as everyone has no doubt seen, the ibis is virtually colorless to any real degree, so getting a nice bit of color in the water without totally overwhelming the bird is a balancing act. Contrast on the bird was the only weapon, pretty much.
Thanks for the reply!
Thanks! Your version is great!
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