Triple Treat - Cat's Paw, Lobster & Prawn.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

and I was not (I thought) inviting your ridicule!

Hey com'on Marcus where's ya sense of humour mate was fun ridicule not nasty, no harm intended, your efforts just made me chuckle, that's all, don't take it personally, it's just crazy'ol me

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by Retrograde

Thanks for your concern Mike - truth is I rushed the processing after returning from SPSP on the Sunday so as to submit this image to the Malins in time for the deadline on Wednesday. It wouldn't surprise me at all if David makes the same critique as Greg and Marcus.

I'm ecstatic to have two of my wide-field images in the finals - I'm only up against some guy called Troy - anyone heard of him?

Troy?...Troy who? ....man his work is spectacular

And so you should be ecstatic, I hope you enjoy DM's critique, he may even reprocess your image too

Mike

[DJT (David)]

Hi Pete

Great image. Looking forward to looking at that space between the prawn and the cats paw, interesting red stuff in there.

Marcus, HLVG is a plug in for photoshop. Apparently it means Hasta La Vista green and it was written by Rogelio Bernal Andrew.

PI use SCNR ( subractive Chromatic Noise Reduction). HLVG has by far the better acronym!

Come over to the light side, you know you wanna

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Almost missed this one! I love this field Pete! Very nicely done! Quite a reasonable colour balance too. Even though colour & saturation is largely a matter of taste, I do agree with Greg about the green tint and, on my monitor (calibrated Eizo), the HII is a teensy bit salmon too.



No clue what HVLG is (other than a typical 4 letter PI acronym ) but in PS it's very straight forward using Colour Balance and Selective Colour tools. I tinkered a bit (to make sure I was right) - see below - hope you don't mind!
I threw in a bit of contrast enhancement for good measure. Perhaps I was a little brutal with the saturation but the green is largely gone and the HII is slightly pinker plus the fainter HII is more visible.

Regardless of my impertinent tinkering , you've got a fine image here Pete!

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Originally Posted by DJT

Hi Pete

Great image. Looking forward to looking at that space between the prawn and the cats paw, interesting red stuff in there.

Thanks very much David.

Yes I think that area might make a good target for someone with narrowband/Ha capability.

[Bart]

Another lovely wide field shot. Very nice.

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Originally Posted by Bart

Another lovely wide field shot. Very nice.

Thanks very much Bart.