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That is a really nice image.
Your 40D and FLT132 are working together well.
A couple of minor suggestions. The Horse could be sharper and the technique that may be best here is selective sharpening. That way you can sharpen the Head and leave the neb areas untouched as they will tend to show noise if you sharpen too much. Also stars often look worse after broad general sharpening.
So in Photoshop its:
1. make sure layers is open.
2. make a duplicate layer.
3. set it to overlay mode
4. filters/other/high pass set it to suit but probably around 6 pixels.
5. layer/layer mask/hide all
6. set the cursor to the paint brush.
7. set the white/black foreground/background tool to show white/black
8. set the width of the brush to a useful size.
Now rub the brush only on the areas you want to be sharpened. You'll see them show through the mask (it is allowing the high pass filtered image to show through only in the areas you rub).
If it is too much change the colour of the white foreground to a grey and it will be more subtle.
If you hit a few stars and they look harsh then click the white/black foreground/background tool so black is on top. This reverse the process and blocks the sharpened layer from shwoing through. You can change the size of the brush so it is just a bit bigger than a star and simply click over the star so it is no longer harsh but right around it is sharpened. So you have a lot of fine control here with this technique.
Once you are happy simply click on:
layers/flatten image
and Photoshop merges the layers back into one image again.
Also the other technique is the core area of that blue neb to the left of the horse is overexposed.
Lasso it and try shadows/highlights to get more of the centre detail showing or use curves and some sort of S shaped curve to pull back the highlights without dimming the middle and low end.
Greg.
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