Hi Clive,
I see what you mean regarding the crop. I didn't realise you had cropped and blown the image up. That has something to do with the un-natural looking stars. I actually like the unprocessed version better, which even cropped and blown up looks about right, to me that is. You know some of those stars will actually appear white, in your coloured version the yellow/golden stars look OK, but the blue ones just seem out of place.
This is only my opinion though, image processing is art, it's your interpretation of the object, not a photograph.
Glad to hear that you can take a little constructive critisism, that's the main reason I post pics, so others can tell me what I've done wrong. Although the "Nice" comments are nice to hear, someone pointing out an error (real or perceived) is helpful.
Cheers
Stuart
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