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Originally Posted by sjastro
A well known US imager has gone as far as to question the ethics of image processing, others claim Photoshop is a scourge.
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I tried to post on this subject a few months back - the fear of heresy stopped me from being more candid.
2 wines down may have remedied that...
We are all imaging unchanging objects with unchanging spectral properties, with equipment that automates the entire process thereby removing the element of human interaction - where does the creativity lie in our amazing hobby?
In the only human controlled aspect of the whole sequence... image processing. Photoshop I argue is not a scourge but our liberation!
If you want to cite polar alignment as a creative part of the process I say "get stuffed nerd" - that's technical, not creative!! Tweaking knobs to ensure absolute polar alignment is not creative.
The only place ceativity exists is in the processing of the image - I even find that limited by the prison of the histogram!!!
Perhaps an Astro Art sub section would be an interesting addition - breaking new ground (in the terms of Astro forums at least) just to push the envelope a little - I suppose we have that to a degree in the narrow band imaging guys!?
Root Toot I'm Oot!!!!!
ps...spent so long composing this rant I missed out on your succinct comments Darryl
