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Originally Posted by RobF
OMG Fred! That's sublime. Utterly unthinkably good for an amateur.
Who would have thought such things would be possible in our lifetime.
Thanks for sharing, and I hope you don't mind this adorning my desktop for quite some time.....   |
hehe, thanks Rob, Ive seen a few in this manor, cant claim to be 1st and gear and PS advances lately have certainly helped thats for sure. Im chuffed its on your desktop and pleased to see the pic gets some real use
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Originally Posted by Octane
That starless version is a watercolour landscape painting from heaven.
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Thanks H, how to get it really smooth is the next challenge.
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
The bigger version with stars - GORGEOUS! (but I'm repeating myself )
The starless version - YUK! (so there!!  ) |
thanks Marcus, sigh, well, im tempted to keep doing starless, but ill always do a (squirm) stared one too, for you
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Originally Posted by philiphart
wow fred.. that's some serious ^&(* you're pulling together there.
i also like the starless version. are you using a continuum filter to subtract from your narrowband images or doing it all in software?
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Phil (and pulling is pretty appropriate
). I tried the continuum filter some time back, but its a tedious painfull way to do it, no wonder not many ppl bother. So I pretty much process stars out as per
Astroanarchy s "tone mapping" (in PS), now right there is the Heavy metal punk of astroimaging . In fact the stars are removed early on and reinserted at the end, processing is MUCH easier in every way, and you can push much harder without worring about stars being destroyed.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Super images Fred. I like them both. Did you put a bit more red in them or were they always like that? They seem a bit more balanced.
By the way the star one has a little processing artifact bottom left like a healing brush scar on the image.
Greg.
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The (RGB) colour in the small stars was already there, I never "add" colour (or anything) I wouldnt be comfortable with that, or it would be open slather
. Star colour is often more round the edge of stars, gradually becoming white in the middle, so when you make them smaller, the colour dissappears (on the big ones), and NABG cams saturate fast, I often have trouble with saturation in the middle of stars (with RGB), need to work on that.
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Originally Posted by astroron
Beautiful Images there Fred, both stunning  |
Thanks Ron
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Originally Posted by richardo
Fred, like the revamped 'star- more' version as it's larger.
Now this is really weird, BUT, I think I like the starless version the best, there's just something about it..... might be the ' within the neb' feel to it.. the un-speckled, lovely sea of blue.... love blue things in space!
Gol darn, what have you done to me..... 
All good Fred.
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thanks Rich hehe, I dont pretend to be accurate, so I understand those that like stars in pics but might accept a bit of artist license on occassion
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Fred, you are the Grunge, the Heavy Metal and the Punk of astroimaging, loud in ya face and a bit crass.... but... it can kinda sound pretty cool 
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Mike, and for your patience on a bit of eye bashing on ocassion. I like a bit of metal too, but it has to be LOUD
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Originally Posted by TrevorW
ditto on my previous comments
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Thanks again Trevor.
Im chuffed by the kind comments, but I might be pushing it now, so enough Sids for now, onwards and upwards
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, I give up).
