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Originally Posted by Bassnut
mmm, I looked at those utubes, I find Craig Starks presentations a bit smarmy and obvious. Yes of course hes righteously scientific, but skips out of left field aspects of imaging learnt by suck it and see experience that dont fit his expert view, especially megadata. The whole "crap in crap out" thing is all very sensible and heroic, but not quite how it can pan out in practice with imagination and non-scientific tools..
For example, he says at one stage in his presentation "if you want a nice image, its gotta be smooth" (with emphasis), like this is a given, the holy grail. Well, really!, lately ive seen some serious amatures leave fine grain noise in very dim object images (retaining sharpness) and it oddly looks fine, even adds character.
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Fred,
I wouldn't necessarily take artistic advice from Craig, however, I've not come across anything from suck it and see experience that isn't adequately explained by fairly simple science and maths. You can certainly get by without understanding the fundamentals and develop techniques that work, but applying a little bit of knowledge can make your image capture more efficient. In the absence of infinite clear skies that's got to be worthwhile
Cheers,
Rick.