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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Lovely original image of Orion, as mentioned a bit too blue but otherwise sensational and a very pleasing framing and stars with some nice bright looking stars well shown.
It may be that you could blend in that excellent Trap image that splits the doubles so well.
The later one though to my eye is badly overcontrasted which creates a very unnatural look. I take it this is the result of PI processing, as its one of its negative trademarks. The heavy HDR look that is.
Greg.
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Thanks Greg
I haven't given bending in the trap a lot of attention yet but it is something I'd like to try to do and still retain some naturalness. Don't think that's going to be easy at all!
It definitely has the looks of being very over contrasted but it isn't a PI process, you can thank Lightroom for that
My PI processing is actually really very subtle but I then take it into LR to play with some of the sliders. I should do a natural not overly contrasty version but it sometimes doesn't look as "good" when printed.
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Originally Posted by Andy01
if you're brave enough to post a photograph of M42 after so many wonderful versions (including Peter Ward's from this years Malins) have previously been posted, it had better be good - and yours certainly is, well done! 
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Thanks Andy, it was Peters that had me wanting to give it a crack with a non wide field instrument