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Old 23-11-2008, 12:41 AM
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strongmanmike (Michael)
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Hi Mark

When I look at your image it looks as if a little too much noise reduction has been used? There is a lot of detail in that dust and in your image this detail looks to have been smoothed out into pasty areas of dust and nebulosity..?

It basically comes down to very careful use of noise reduction. Personally I'd rather have some noise left in the image rather than leave the image looking artificially smoothed but that's a personal approach I guess?

Your mage is really very good and pleasing to look at, I just think less noise reduction might improve it..? Lots of exposure is even better if you can, rather than resorting to noise reduction.

Cheers

Mike
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