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This was after I'd tried to get to his "good"side and he lit off to perch on neighbor's fence for a second. It has a gawdawful amount of noise in it. The lens I had was too short (18~140mm) already on the camera, didn't waste time trying to swap lenses in case he decided to leave. So this is seriously cropped.
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My WAG is there's about a 1.5~2.5 stop "range of forgiveness" to be able to draw out the shadow detail with any under-exposed image. Not done any empirical testing, too lazy and will just keep it in mind.What a huge difference from the original JPG.
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Try the Raw de-noise module. Just crack it open, like .2 or .3It has a gawdawful amount of noise in it.
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And one I'm more familiar with. I'm now in the "whatever works" stage. Had to hunt and add the de-noise module before I could use it. And the control is 'tetchy' to say the least. Couldn't find a point much below .5 without going the other direction.FYI, you can crop in Darktable. When you export, you can change the file size too. I don't consider GIMP a cheat, just opening another program.
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I went back and looked at Darktable. There are three different denoises. Astrophoto, profiled and RAW. On the RAW, I misspoke. Instead of .2 or .3 I should have said .002 or.003 on the threshold. The slider only goes to .1 anyway. What version are you running? In my repository (Mint) the regular package is 2.4.2-1. The flatpack version is 3.8.1. 16 meg file vs. 116 meg.
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This is 2.4.4-1.el7 and I barely touched the control for RAW and it radically changed the image. Had to really fuss with it to dial it back to what I thought was okay. Still a bit overdone, actually.I went back and looked at Darktable. There are three different denoises. Astrophoto, profiled and RAW. On the RAW, I misspoke. Instead of .2 or .3 I should have said .002 or.003 on the threshold. The slider only goes to .1 anyway. What version are you running? In my repository (Mint) the regular package is 2.4.2-1. The flatpack version is 3.8.1. 16 meg file vs. 116 meg.
It looked to be a younger bird, others have said a Cooper's Hawk, but ornithology ain't my strong suit!That looks like a Juvenile Bald Eagle?
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Cooper's Hawk was actually my first thought. Only reason I suggested Juvenile Bald Eagle is the length of the beak - looked a tad long for a Coopers, but still could be.It looked to be a younger bird, others have said a Cooper's Hawk, but ornithology ain't my strong suit!
UPDATE: The more I look at it and compare, I think it probably is a Cooper's hawk.
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Well, it is that for sure, regardless.AFAIC, you could tell me it's a "Big Flying Florida Rodent Eater." I'd accept it.