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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
From my short time on ISS, I have to say it is an very enthusiastic group, polite, but often not very critical. By critical I am not suggesting you go around calling someone a boof-head!
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Don't make bland assumptions. To start with, I recieve very good (and extremely helpful) criticism of my images from talented and polite people like Jase, Bert, and a few others. Not everyone says just 'Nice image'.
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
When I look at a deep sky image the things I like to see are . . . . accurate colour balance.
As a case in point you would not be happy with a picture of your family/dog/cat that was out of focus, blurred and had a strong green colour cast from having the wrong white balance setting.
But getting the colour right on an object you can not physically see in colour with a warm human eye at the eyepiece is a little more tricky.
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. . . and those horrible neon green, blue, red etc reverse looking images are ghastly, and yet they are called 'magnificent'. Yes, the detail is nice. I might not like the colours used, but I admire the detail!
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Happily there are many professional images out there, for example the treasure-trove of David Malin images taken with the AAT. A good deal of effort has been made to get the colour right in these images and can be considered as the gold standard of colour accuracy.
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But are they having 'fun'??? I know I am with my incorrectly coloured images.
Quite frankly, I am getting fed up reading your posts! All they ever seem to say is 'you ain't doing diddly-squat unless you use all my expensive equipment and become like a professional!
Stuff that!!!
I may only use an ED80 on an EQ6 with an El-Cheapo Toucam, but I am having a blast, and if I'm happy with my images, who gives a poop? You apparently!
Enough said before I go further and it gets deleted!