Saturday Sun and a colourising experiment

[sheeny]

I captured these this morning through cirrus cloud. Just as well, it clouded over properly afterwards. I noticed no significant spots in white light, so just some Ha from the ED80.

After a comment about the lack of brightness in my last solar post, I decided to experiment a bit with how I colourise my images. I have traditionally used a levels layer to drop all the blue out, and reduce green output to 150 in order to produce my orange solar images. Today I tried using a hue and saturation layer to colorise.

In both methods black is black, but using my levels layer the brightest pixels are yellow/orange. With the hue and saturation layer, the bightest pixels are white.

Which do you prefer? What looks best? I've also posted the monochrome uncolourised images as well.

Al.

[sheeny]

... and here's a few more proms.

Al.

[Paul Haese]

I think I prefer the first and I would do a medium curves boost and pretect your proms Al with a layer mask. Still plenty of activity despite the lack of a spot. Might get out tomorrow if I can before I go out.

[El Paso Eric]

I'm with Paul. My preference is the first one. I think the darker image provide a lot more contrast on the surface granularity.

Great looking images.

[sheeny]

Thanks Eric and Paul.

I like my original processing too, because it gives good contrast to the surface detail, but then its easy to get used to what you like even if it isn't the best, so thought I'd ask...:P.

Al.

[asimov]

The first one for me Al..!

[sheeny]

Thanks John.

Al.

[Derek Klepp]

Al I reckon the monochrome and yellow show the most detail especially on the limb.But the orange is I suppose more pleasing to the eye.I know nothing of the PS techniques and actually prefer the monochrome pics because of the detail they show.

[midnight]

I think there are subtle advantages in each image and image 3 seems to jump out at you. But image 1 is the one I find myself looking at more.

Very nice Al!

Darrin...