Thanks everyone for the comments. Much appreciated.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Hi, Paul,
A very fine rendition. You've processed it very well to bring out all our favourite features with nice controlled contrast.
Best,
Mike
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As discussed in your thread, this is about contrast control to increase the effect of the luminosity captured. Dr David Malin stated one thing that he really liked about my overall winning M42 image last year was the way I had enhanced the luminosity of light on the gas by stars nearby. I had at that stage started doing this in all my images to increase the 3D effect, I have now developed this process quite a lot to the point where I am using selective masking to further enhance the effect. I think it helps to make features pop out.
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Originally Posted by Andy01
Lovely shot, amazing "pillowy" look to the dust/gas clouds and beautiful use of the colour palatte.
Interesting to look at the differing FOV's of your's and Mikes images of the same target posted here this week.
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You have to be careful with the comparison. My image is at about 66% of full resolution and the only reason I have made it smaller is because the star shapes are quite defective due to guide errors that I have now sorted. Guiding at long focal lengths is much harder than at short focal lengths. The guide errors are so much more difficult to manage. Fine tuning that out has taken some time.
As stated about the pillowy look is about 3D contrast control and really helps to make an image pop. I guess as Dr David Malin once critiqued one of my images by saying one has to "respect the light". The bright areas should be bright and the dark areas should be dark.
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Originally Posted by Hagar
Very nice Paul. You have captured the 3D effect missing in so many narrow band images. The detail right to the core star is magnificent.
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Yes several recent images come to mind here Doug. I did an image last year of IC2944 (
seen here) which demonstrates how the 3D effect can be managed with good data. Recent examples I have seen have been flat in my opinion. One in particular looks almost monochromatic with mainly blue tones and little other enhancement.