

It will not only allow you to process the subject and bkg independently of each other, nut that mask (if done properly) in combination with how you adjust your curves masks can also really help you avoid halos. Is masking the subject on a duplicated layer in PS part of your post process flow? If not, I highly recommend you take that route. Try pulling into LR and just for the sake of viewing, try temp -12 and tone -2, then play around by fine tuning and see how you like it. but also, I believe the image has a very strong yellow cast. Going through the proper steps to pull back some of the black saturation in the darks and strategically reduce contrast a touch could prove highly beneficial, as was mentioned. They are heavily overlooked for being so common but certainly have something to offer IMO. I've always loved their eyes and the head/beak shape has an aggressive, mean appeal (as evidenced in your cropped rp). Wayne, neat to see this variety of Cormorant. But the best way to avoid any noise is to ensure you have a well exposed image irrespective of ISO, if it's a tad light/bright most of the time you have the data, you just pull it back, but as you know, under exposed and you are inheriting a whole raft of issues.
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In addition the application of NR, the more you suppress the noise, the more sharpening is required, plus addressing Luminace and Colour noise sliders too, they all have a 'cause & effect' to the file and say in Lr you can visually see what & where you are applying it to the image for example.

I think Paul, it just stems from some simple house keeping when it comes to this, having a sharp raw is a given, avoid hefty cropping, and knowing how/when to sharpen images without being aggressive in the amounts amounts either as a pre-input or at the output stage, and using 16bit Tiffs with layers, never JPEG's with JPEG's on top of JPEG's they don't have the info. However, you are correct in that there should be none to start with, although I must say I've seen plenty of images on this forum from excellent photographers that do exhibit halos.so maybe that's a lesson for all of us in terms of post processing.
