Struggling to pull out the subject in this photo

[Kland]

Curious to see how you guys tackle this photo. I’m still very new to darktable and I’m finding it difficult to pull the subject out from the background. Is there anything I can do while processing the photo?

Thanks.

DSCN4802.NRW (25.2 MB)

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Here’s my attempt:
DSCN4802.NRW.xmp (15.6 KB)

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[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

DSCN4802.NRW.xmp (7.1 KB)

[Kland]

This is much better. Thanks for sharing

[sillyxone]

shamelessly leveraging the old rule-of-third to draw eye attention to … eyes

cranking up RL-deblur for more details against the blurry surrounding.

DSCN4802.NRW.xmp (10.1 KB)

EDIT: should have mentioned my usual dt-nind-denoise workflow

[priort (Todd Prior)]

DSCN4802.NRW.xmp (22.4 KB)

[Kland]

Beautiful!

[Popanz (Uli)]

If you want to pull out the subject, concentrate on it. Go near, let it be right exposed and colourful.

DSCN4802.NRW.xmp (22,7 KB)

[Suki2019]

popanz…for me…to mutch HDR but good.

Struggling to pull out the subject in this photo_DSCN4802.NRW.xmp (16.9 KB)

[siamak]

DSCN4802.NRW.xmp (11.4 KB)

[Jetze]

@Popanz

If you want to pull out the subject, concentrate on it. Go near, let it be right exposed and colourful.

So your version says as well, It’s near the limits but I like it that way in this case.

[lylejk (Lyle Kroll)]

Selective masking and stuff.

[lylejk (Lyle Kroll)]

Why not a FotoSketcher blending as well.

[lphilpot (Len Philpot)]

ART

DSCN4802.NRW.arp (27.5 KB)

[Wilecoyote]

My take with darktable (agx)

kland_DSCN4802.NRW.xmp (45.2 KB)

[sallyanne (Susan)]

Didn’t do too much. Using your jpg and gimp.
Cropped to the fox, Auto levels, Duplicated the layer and set to Soft Light mode, then sharpened with less than 2 radius

[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

DT 5.3

DSCN4802.NRW.xmp (18.4 KB)