Here’s a photo of a little egret at Blashford Lakes nature reserve. I’m wondering if anyone can come up with a way of showing more feather detail, especially over the bird’s shoulder. I’ve been fiddling with it in a mostly random amateurish way, and to my eye I get slightly better results with filmic than my usual sigmoid. Over to you (and thanks in advance).
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I couldn’t do much with the shoulder; there doesn’t seem to be much detail there. I did manage to tame it, somewhat. dt 4.8.1
I see a dark hallo around the bird, mostly above it (and its underside also got very dark). I haven’t opened the xmp (I’m on the phone), but did you perhaps use tone EQ?
The one from @Popanz looks similar, especially the underside. Gradient + vignetting?
I think this dark “halo” is already in the original picture and @priort and I made it stronger by raising the contrasts.
This is the picture with hardly any module activated:
Yes, thanks, but to my eye the feathers on the bird’s neck now look sort of over sharpened, which I think is down to your local contrast module settings.
you can increase target white in display luminance section
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The feathers were not clipped so I managed to get some detail. The local contrast module seems to help, but play with the sliders.
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Todd Prior,
Good detail job.
