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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Super work Dennis, bringing up the star field has worked very well.
Mike
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Thanks Mike.
Yes – I was very surprised to pull up so many stars (10 secs, F5.6, ISO100) given the Moon’s propensity to wash things out! I guess it also illustrates how much “dimmer” even the over-exposed crescent Moon is compared to a 1st Qtr or Full Moon.
I used Levels and Curves to pull up the stars followed by Noel Carboni’s “Less Crunchy, More Fuzzy” action to soften them.
I then copied this modified image as a Layer into the original and simply used the Eraser Tool in CS3 to erase the over exposed Moon, Venus & Jupiter to let the original unprocessed Layer “peek” through the holes of the Layer with the more prominent star field.
Pretty amazing stuff, this Photoshop magic! It also helps to have the image quality of the Canon 400mm F5.6 contributing to the final result.
Cheers
Dennis