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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Hi Rex.
Nice NGC6188. I like it.
A few pointers in my opinion. Possibly a tad too red. I know it has a lot of Ha but as a general rule of thumb of my own I like to try to get a range of colours in an image and not too much of any one colour (of course objects have a colour but when you add Ha or have a Ha boosted DSLR which tend to red bias it becomes a bit harder).
I have no attention on the stars when I view the image apart from the occasional red bias. The dust ridge near the bright area could be selectively sharpened as it really is the subject of the image and thus it could be made to impact more. Selective sharpening means a sharpened layer and a mask and then reveal only those areas of interest through the mask. I usually use Photoshop but I am sure it can be done in PI.
The mosaic seaming is perfect, I cant tell where one panel ends and the other starts and that's very hard to achieve in mosaics.
Greg.
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Thanks Greg. Your comments are very helpful and I understand what you are saying about the red and also the sharpenning, I will tweek this a little in a couple of days so I can look at it subjectively. I have to find some time to play a whole lot more with decon ss well so I have at least a bit of an idea of what to do with the settings instead of guessing with trial and error. As for the seeming, PI has some pretty good tools that help with that once you work out what the settings do. Thanks again for the feedback.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
This is actually a pretty good image Rex and not that far from the winning deep sky shot at last nights DM awards really  some colour dynamics are missing as it is a bit red/white but for me the good things are that there are no obvious signs of deconvolution, wavelets or minimum filter ie no spotty backgrounds, little bright worms or detail all turned to perfect little dots. No flattened look from heavy handed shadow highlights either, so they're all good things!... a gold star from me
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Wow thanks Mike for the huge compliment. I think I have a long way to go before I feel like my images are anywhere near as good as those submitted to the DM's, but thanks for the vote of confidence and the gold star regarding my processing. As I have said I do feel like I am improving so just gotta keep at it.