Eta again 21-02

[mill]

15x5 Minutes iso1600
Canon 40D modded.

http://i605.photobucket.com/albums/tt137/Martin_Meupelenberg/etalarge-1.jpg

Comments welcome, qritique too :P

[Tilt]

Very nice, excellent levels of detail and the colour looks great.

Michael

[mill]

Thank you Michael :)

[renormalised]

Nice shot, Martin. Like the colour:)

[mill]

Thank you renormalised :)

[Quark]

Hi Martin,

Like your image but the focus looks to be off a tad, this really shows up when the image is magnified. Colour looks good, doesn't look over done.

Do you use a Bhatinov mask, not sure whether I spelt that right, however there is an extensive thread on IIS about how they work and how to build one. I have built one and it really is amazing how quick and easy focusing becomes.

Regards
Trevor

[jjjnettie]

I'd love to be able to create images like that.
Beautiful work.

[spearo]

nice shot!
good colors
by the way, you say its at ISO 1600 but on the image it says ISO 6400
cheers
frank

[mill]

Thank you Trevor, Jeanette and Frank.

Frank it is iso1600, i put the wrong number in the pic :(

[spearo]

no prob, thought i'd point it out
I've made typos in my images too...
frank

[Omaroo]

Great shot Martin - in fact, it had so much detail that I couldn't resist a re-work attempt. I reduced the star size and halos a little in Imagesplus, and then performed a shadow/highlight adjustment in CS3. Reduced in size to 1260px the clarity is starting to show - especially around the keyhole. The basic data is there in spades, and a tweak or two really brings it up.

http://www.omaroo.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=5778&g2_serialNumber=1

Excellent work mate.

[mill]

That is looking very good Chris :thumbsup:
Can you tell me the steps you took, so i can do it on the original tif file?

[Omaroo]

Yeah Martin - no probs!

1) Open in ImagesPlus.
2) Menu: Point/Star Size & Halo Reduction (one notch smaller)
3) Save
4) Open in CS3
5) Menu: Image/Adjustments/Shadow-Highlight
6) Shadows - Amount 10%, Tonal Width 100%, Radius 90px
7) Highlights - Amount 50%, Tonal Width 40%, Radius 100px
8) Adjustments - Colour Correction +25, Midtone Contrast +25
9) OK
10) Menu: Filter/Sharpen
11) Menu: Image/Adjustments/Levels
12) Centre slider to 0.75 (RGB)
13) Menu: Image/ImageSize to 1260px

Done - at least on my monitor. You can fiddle with shadow/highlights tool a lot - it is one of the most powerful in Photoshop.

If you don't have ImagesPlus, then you can do step 2 here within Photoshop itself:

Star Bloat Reduction in Adobe Photoshop

Make sure you've selected the image layer, rather than one of your adjustment layers

1) Use the eyedropper tool to select the color one of the stars that you wish to work on
2) Use "Select/Color Range" to select all similar stars in the picture. You can set the degree over which the color range is selected
3) Use "Select/Modify/Expand" to increase the selection by 2 pixels
4) I then use "Select/Feather" to "blur" the area of the selection by 1 pixel
5) Go under "Filter/Other/Minimum", set the range as low as it can go, i.e., 1 pixel, and apply this filter to the selected stars
6) Generally, the effect is too extreme, so IMMEDIATELY go under "Edit/Fade Minimum Filter" to adjust the amount of this last edit to a more appropriate level.
7) Hit CTL+D to deselect the stars and then hit save.

And there you go!

[Octane]

Martin,

You've come such a long way, so quickly. Very, very well done.

Agree with Trevor about the softness, but, I think it kind of adds to the feel of the image; like an oil painting. Nice rework by Chris, too.

Loving the 3D effect. Keep at it!

Regards,
Humayun

[jjjnettie]

Thanks for the recipe Chris!

[mill]

Thank you Humayun.

Thank you Chris for the good explanation, will try this tonight when i get back from work.

[iceman]

Marvellous image Martin, and nice rework Chris.

[Omaroo]

Cheers Martin & Jeanette - a pleasure.

Thanks guys. It was a good image to start with, and the original TIFs will be nice to play with Martin. :thumbsup:

[Quark]

Hi Martin,

Strewth, just how much better does this look with the halo's reduced. Just goes to show the overall quality of your captures is great, keep up the good work. There is so much to learn with this DSLR imaging, thanks Chris for the enlightening work flow.

Regards
Trevor