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Originally Posted by gregbradley
A wonderful image. So deep and super sharp. Your focus and tracking are superb.
There is a slight green bias to the background that is throwing colour off slightly. Many astro images suffer from this even from dark skies. Also the flame neb looks flat colourwise and can be made to be a vibrant yellowish colour like its name. The stars are probably beyond getting much of the colour back but there are a few yellow ones there that can be punched up to balance it a tad. Like Humi says, some 5 min subs for the stars would finish off this project beautifully. There is also a bit too much magenta in your Ha blend. Depends on how you blended the Ha as Ha can easily do that. There are several ways to blend Ha with distinctly different results. Is there some Ha as luminosity there?
Selective colour can reduce that effect to some degree. The fine points of colour seem to be the area to concentrate on as the basics have been done superbly well (framing, focus, tracking, callibrating, stacking).
So a fabulous image with lots right but a bit more finessing the colour would take it to another level. You've invested a lot of effort into this one and its worth taking the time.
Greg.
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Greg,
Thanks heaps!
Particularly your comments. I found them very useful and you managed to analyse the image well. Working so long on an image you tend to miss the obvious until someone points it out to you, and I you certainly did that.
I did a preliminary adjustment to the image based on your advise but its late and I should really come back to it tomorrow for another look before showing the results, so far it looks promising and have managed to address a few of your observations.
Thanks again for your input, greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Mark