Eta Carina

[jjjnettie]

Two nights of data combined for a total of 1hr and 30minutes of Eta Carina goodness.
canon 20d set at iso 400
ed80
heq5pro
Deepskystacker
processed in cs3, painshop pro.
Heavily cropped because the edges were crap.

I've probably overcooked it too, but you get to a stage where you can't see any different.
Please, any advise would be handy.

[AlexN]

Looks superb to me JJJ! Nice colouring and very sharp stars and great detail..

You'll not have any trouble selling copies of this shot! :)

[jjjnettie]

It'd come up nice in a 10"x10" frame wouldn't it.

[AlexN]

Sure would mate! The square crop looks great too by the way, Even if it was to hide field curvature, it looks really nice.. The only change I would make to the image (being purely from a personal taste aspect) would be to rotate it 180 degrees...

[toryglen-boy]

Lovely image there J, loads of detail and lovely colours

;)

[jjjnettie]

Thanks Duncan.
Lots of compression artefacts in it, the full res version is much nicer.

[batema]

Hi JJJ,

Another great image but i'm wondering where you are taking these images from. All we have on the coast is clouds. I need to head west a little. Well done.

Mark

[jjjnettie]

You just need to get on the other side of those mountains Mark.
Thanks for looking.

[DavidU]

It must be the womans touch with smooth gentle natural processing.
Very tidy jjj.

[Lester]

Very nice closeup, detailed and doesn't look over cooked to me.

All the best.

[Hagar]

Nice image JJ. I would probably advise a little lighter on the processing and maybe lift the colour saturation a bit to get a bit of colour back into the stars, they all seem a little over cooked and white.

Sorry for destroying your image but it may give you some ideas. Saturation up. Histogran levls adjustment to the black point and a little more red using curves. Dificult to do from a small JPG file.
Hope t helps and I hope you don't mind.

[jjjnettie]

Thanks Doug.
I'm always up for a repro. And I think this one may be worth the effort. Can't remember at what stage I burnt out the stars. I didn't do any sharpening so it must have been levels.
Anyway, thanks for the advice.

[sjastro]

Looks OK to me.

Is it possible to show a higher resolution image?

Steven

[strongmanmike]

Yeh looks ok to me too Jeanette :thumbsup:

Maybe a tad light I guess..? but it would print well in a magazine like this! ;) :D

Mike

[jjjnettie]

LOL Doug, you're always welcome to have a play around with my images.
Glad you like it Mike.