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Hi Wes,
After trawling the net and all I've read on imaging M42 its probably the most imaged object in the sky other than the moon.
It's also one of the hardest to get right.
Like Glen said your stars are perfect. Most times I see pics of orion (myself included), and the core is blown out and you can't see the trapezium but you see lots of dust and colour.
I've had a go blending short exposures to get the core and longer ones to get the dust and then use the mask function in photoshop to blend the two.
Its pretty tricky to get it right without looking a bit fake.
Im sure all the really good images have this process applied to them as its such a dynamic area really faint areas and bright stars so close to each other.
Even has done a really good job in blending the both together.
I did that HDR thing on my tablet with an app called snapseed.
Its got a buton called HDR scape and one press and the background just jumps out. A few tweaks and its not too bad.
Ive tried the same thing in photoshop and i just cant get it.
Anyway you are well on the way so don't give up.
I recon proceessing is so much harder than getting the image to start with and then the finished product is so subjective anyway i normally end up with about 10 versions of each image.
Cheers
Andy
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