I used a couple of them as the starting point for all of my hawk image rescue attempts in this article. Like many people who use DxO PhotoLab software I have a number of custom presets. I did not make any spot adjustments other than removing a few small streaks caused by snowflakes falling.

So, let’s have a look at my latest hawk image rescue attempts, this time done with my revised post processing approach. Having added Topaz Denoise AI seemed to be a good enough reason to give it another shot. Last year I tried some image rescue attempts with these photographs and was not happy with the results that I was able to achieve.

The OOC images will illustrate that each of the photographs was underexposed. The out-of-camera jpeg (OOC) is shown, followed by a jpeg that I processed from the corresponding RAW file for each photograph. What follows are five handheld images, all captured at ISO-3200 in poor light with a Nikon 1 V3 and 1 Nikkor CX 70-300 mm f/4.5-5.6 telephoto zoom lens. As regular readers will know I recently added Topaz Denoise AI to my standard post processing approach. This article features a selection of hawk image rescue attempts that I did in post processing this morning.

Dxo photolab 5 vs topaz denoise