Thank you Todd!
I like the second one very much. Looks a bit like an HDR image but that can be toned down I guess.
I have no idea what you did with the color profile and what you mean by perceptual and relative exports though. Will research.
Wow!
I donāt know what is the best way to figure out what the edits are in DT.
Do you know what will be the best way to see these edits in DT?
Your second one looks the best out of all the edits!!
How did you manage the noise? The black has good detail and still the image doesnāt lack contrast!
Thank you for sharing your edit!!
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Noise was not an issue on your image in my view. I applied default setting of Denoise (profiled) which I apply to all images as basic denoising if the cameras ISO is detected, which it was for your camera. I could have reduced the noise more but the little noise that remained didnāt bother me.
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This
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After seeing so different edits, I was interested how this bird looks on other photos and how vibrant the reddish colour really is. Not that Iām now any wiser. Anyway, for the interested:
https://www.birdsofindia.org/phoenicurus-leucocephalus
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I had a look at these. They are low resolution, and low quality. The EXIF data has been stripped from them.
Who can say which image, if any, has the hue and vibrance closest to the actual bird.
Well now you know the latin name and you can have a look if you can find further information, there are as well videos on YouTube. But to really know one have to be in India. Thatās a long travel for me, just to see how a bird looks like. 
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A few years back I was at a place where there were wild flamingos. Our guide told us that these particular flamingos werenāt as pink as some of the flamingos a few miles away, because the population of brine shrimps in both places were different.
Also, blue boobies (in the GalƔpagos) are only blue if they are well-fed. Undernourished blue boobies are a grey colour.
I am therefore going to claim that my rendition of the image is the correct one, given the location and diet of the bird in question
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When people share the sidecar file you can make a duplicate in the lighttable view and then switch to it and apply their sidecar to the duplicateā¦then you will have the edit and all the settings usedā¦
As for your other questionā¦when you go from the working space which is wider gamut and then export to a lower gamut ā¦ie usually say sRGB then any colors that are out of gamut must be mapped or clipped and so there are ways to do itā¦
See the diagram here for a decent visualā¦
https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/color-space-conversion.htm
Ya I think both my edits are not ārealisticā but the first one I like the color and the contrast to the backgroundā¦
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I remember how the bird looks in the field very well. More rufous than red. Your edit is spot on.
In fact, when I was working on this, I had to mask out any color adjustments to the reds using a hue parametric negative mask to preserve that color. Otherwise it was getting too saturated and unnatural.
Thank you Todd. That is very helpful.
Thank you for that link.
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Hi, loading the xmp in darktable and looking at the editing by module
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Tweaked my earlier edit which was too much I thinkā¦maybe still too crunchy
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