This is my first post in this forum.
I mostly shoot birds and usually manage with a few modules in Darktable.
This one has some dark darks and a white cap on the bird and I would love to see how others here handle this situation.
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Great shot! Thanks. I kept the full frame because the way you got the boulders in the background is beautiful.
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Nice pic. My attempt with RT 5.12. A slight crop to put the bird to a side
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Welcome Gopal!
I don’t do much bird photography, so I am sure others will be able to get much better results. I had fun though, so thank you!
darktable 5.01
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Welcome…when you post an image you need to attach a license…others likely should not edit it until you do…
This will specify the terms under which you are sharing the image with forum members…
Thanks for the submission and again welcome…
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DT 5.3 I used a couple of instances of shadow highlights to bring up the darker parts of the bird. For me the challenge was keeping the black bird dark enough without glugging up the detail.
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a second post with 20% global brilliance added in color balance RGB to brighten for web display. Sometimes I find I need to do this after posting my first edit attempt.
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Both have matrix-type embedded profiles with no CLUTs and so probably appear on my screen as relative colorimetric.
Not only that but my Profile Inspector (ColourThink) has both profiles’ Default Rendering Intent shown as ‘Perceptual’.
Pardon my confusion over what is being shown …
rendered with the color.org sRGB profiles which do support rendering intents…I;m not sure how DT exports the profiles but its listed in the exif data of the jpg… Indeed the darktable default matrix profiles do not support different rendering intents…
ExifTool output.txt (3.0 KB)
GIMP seems to pick it up…
Yes, I just opened the original instead of the post-view relative image and see that it has an ICC v4 profile but it still says that the Default Rendering Intent is ‘Perceptual’.
Looks like color management is screwy somewhere …
… of course, I blame dt … 
These profiles will do all the rendering intents but also use PRMG for the perceptual rendering or some of them do…I think this is the perceptual naming and tag and not indicative of the acutal rendering intent that is chosen and used when the export is done. There are several documents on the color.org page…the appearance profile is suggested as a good profile to use when going between colorspaces with different gamut and it has the necessary information to output the standard rendering intents…
Love this. Thank you! I have not tried RawTherapee yet. DT does all that I need and more.
The red on the tail looks very natural
Thank you Todd. I see others are able to tag the license when they share. I am yet to figure out how to do that
Thank you Thomas!
There is more detail visible in the blacks with your edits.