From Gabi Sandu

WW Photographers - I’ll go first with the #beforeafteredit.

Here is a Ural Owl in a dark environment. I used a very slow shutter speed 1/25 and a very high iso 12.800. In order to denoise the image I used dxo pure raw, but because I shot at 1/25 the image wasn’t too noisy, less photons remained on the sensor. Other edits to the image were, vertical crop and some color adjustments.

PS - The shot was handheld and I shot in burst mode. If I remember correctly it was hundreds of shots. This one comes the best.

Nikon Z9, Nikon 500mm pf 1/25, f5.6, iso-12800

This was in response to this post:

It may look like all these photographers just magically get these great photos we enjoy every day, but a ton of work can take place both before and after the shutter button is pressed!

If this is something of interest to you all, I can try to remember to check back for more.