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Originally Posted by jase
I wouldn't compare it against anything to be honest. The more I look at it, the more I can see problems. Stupid things like applying colour noise reduction after the GradientXterminator process caught me out - rather critical when you have the balance background colour checked in the plugin. As I indicated, I didn't spend much time on it. Its great to see other imagers having a shot at such data. Its actually pretty good to work with as the luminance lends itself well to being stretched quite hard. Hope to see more results from others and of course I hope the competition goes well. Having the same data offers an equal field (just like stock car racing) - comes down to skill instead of the bantering "my equipment is better than yours". Who cares I say - its what you can do with the data that counts.  |
It's good to see what others do. Although I am not entering the competition I actually learnt more tonight by playing with this data and using your final result as a reference. It showed me that even using the same source data the end result shows the way every user processes all of his own data. It has this "personal touch" regardless of how it was acquired. My processing is always a bit blurry and soft. I realised that I couldn't get close to the sharpness and details you got out of it so that made me rethink a lot of things I took for granted in my processing flow because you used the same source files. Good exercise.
