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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This is much better. Thanks for sharing
shamelessly leveraging the old rule-of-third to draw eye attention to … eyes 
cranking up RL-deblur for more details against the blurry surrounding.
EDIT: should have mentioned my usual dt-nind-denoise workflow
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Beautiful!
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)
popanz…for me…to mutch HDR 
but good.
Struggling to pull out the subject in this photo_DSCN4802.NRW.xmp (16.9 KB)
So your version says as well, It’s near the limits but I like it that way in this case.
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
@Popanz Love this edit and I’m working on seeing how you came to this result in darktable. However I notice when viewing your .xmp file it causes the program to crash. I know this is pretty unrelated to the discussion, but would you have any idea why this is the case?
I’m using AgX test build. Have a look here:
That makes a lot of sense now. Appreciate the link you shared, currently diving into the thousands of replies trying to figure out how to install this module. Looks like the author’s original link is dead?
My try. Increasing the color intensity of the fox and reducing in the background with a parametric mask
Fox-DSCN4802.NRW.xmp (15.8 KB)
