cybereye
28-01-2011, 09:46 PM
Hi everyone!!
As I've been out of action for a while due to rain, floods, storms and having some pieces fashioned for my camera, I thought I'd sit down and reprocess my M42 that I took back in December. I worked my way through the reprocessing with Louie's tutorials playing in the background. I'd listen and watch, pause, adjust my image of M42 accordingly and then continue the tutorials.
After a lot of work and then stacking 3 different images in Photoshop (hence the slightly elongated stars at the edges that needed a small amount of rotation to match exactly) I ended up with an image that I am very happy with. I must admit that I did the noise reduction using Neat Image and not Louie's Noise Reduction technique. Sorry Louie!!
Anyway I've attached the original version of my processing that I did the night I took the images and the reprocessed one. Can you spot the difference??!!
Just to be complete this image is a stack of:
11x30s subs
6x2min subs
3x5min subs
All @ ISO 800
Each group was stacked in DSS using a corresponding dark and a the same flat was used for all 3 groups. The 3 resulting images were individually processed in Photoshop and then stacked.
The image itself was a test of my newly acquired Baader MPCC and UHC-S filter and was taken with a full Moon close by.
I would love to get some feedback as to where I could improve on the new image as really that's the only way I'll learn!!
Cheers,
Mario
PS In case you were having trouble, the reprocessed image is the second one!!!
As I've been out of action for a while due to rain, floods, storms and having some pieces fashioned for my camera, I thought I'd sit down and reprocess my M42 that I took back in December. I worked my way through the reprocessing with Louie's tutorials playing in the background. I'd listen and watch, pause, adjust my image of M42 accordingly and then continue the tutorials.
After a lot of work and then stacking 3 different images in Photoshop (hence the slightly elongated stars at the edges that needed a small amount of rotation to match exactly) I ended up with an image that I am very happy with. I must admit that I did the noise reduction using Neat Image and not Louie's Noise Reduction technique. Sorry Louie!!
Anyway I've attached the original version of my processing that I did the night I took the images and the reprocessed one. Can you spot the difference??!!
Just to be complete this image is a stack of:
11x30s subs
6x2min subs
3x5min subs
All @ ISO 800
Each group was stacked in DSS using a corresponding dark and a the same flat was used for all 3 groups. The 3 resulting images were individually processed in Photoshop and then stacked.
The image itself was a test of my newly acquired Baader MPCC and UHC-S filter and was taken with a full Moon close by.
I would love to get some feedback as to where I could improve on the new image as really that's the only way I'll learn!!
Cheers,
Mario
PS In case you were having trouble, the reprocessed image is the second one!!!