[xelasnave]

I am obsessive..I know that but I manage nevertheless.It is not easy being a perfectionist and existing with less than can make you happy.

It is hard for me not doing my best if I think I should do better.
I may seem casual but it is my way of managing the problem.

So the last image of the fighting Dragons upset me for many reasons and I know even if up to my standard it wont cut it with folk who actually know what they are doing.

But I had to do something rather than taking the axe to all my gear and burning down the caravan and staging a shoot out at Mac Donalds…..

So what to do so I can move on.

I went thru the data and removed all stuff that was not ok..nevertheless I had to accept really poor green data..but I improved what I had by throwing most of it out..I wanted to get more data but I was too tired.. the reality is I am getting old and cant cut it anymore..although that is negative..but a symptom of lack of sleep and eating etc.


I don't mind getting old or losing my legs but why cant things just work better.

Anyways ran the best data with a 3x drizzle, man does that take time on my lappy, then Star Tools with many trails to get the best..very time consuming..I found that deconvolution would not work ..why? I suspect the 3x drizzle cause it worked on no drizzle on earlier attempts ..but it didn't so stuff it..I don't need it.. so in Photo Shop ..How to be better?..well I thought I was not concentrating on each image and just trhrowing tghem all in to get a result..so I worked on each image as if it were the only image I had and thereby seeking to make it great.but you have to treat each image as if it is the only one and give it everything you have got...so each one I made as perfect as it coukld be....then with six "great" images I merged them a pair at time then treated the merged pair as my only image and worked it up as best I could before I merged another..and so it went that way...It has taken me two days pretty full on.but to do the best you can you cant worry about the time it takes..I just wanted to do the absolute best with what I had..and it was not much really.but I thought what if this was important and humanity needed the best result possible ..well I wont give anything less than I can...after cut backs I had maybe two and a half hours..maybe less.
I really did not worry about colour as much as getting as much detail as I could..and so this is what I did with a 80mm scope and crook legs but I will do better next time.

alex