[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by firstlight

Very nice Dave. It was a Malin image of this object I saw in the old Southern Astronomy the really fanned the spark of my interest in astronomy.

Very pleasing rendition.

Cheers
Tony

thanks Tony. Actually for me it was saturn as well as this object that took my attention those many years ago Glad you liked it

Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

Naaahhhhh, you haven't been too long on M42

Check the date: http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...7&postcount=12


Seriously, nice bit of HDR work Dave.
The trap sits nicely proud

OMG yeah tend to forget those imaging baby steps, and the skinned knees on learning to walk i am up to crawling now....

Originally Posted by starfinder

Dave. The time you've spent on the subject gathering data and processing has been well spent. That's a pleasingly excellent rendition. The skills you're learning processing M42 will pay rich dividends when you move to other deep sky objects. Enjoy! Regards, Russ

i have a looong way to go Russ. Though this summer the weather has not been kind to trying to get on top of it

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That is a very good result Houghy. A very pleasing image, nice and sharp, great detail, stars look good. If I were bein picky I would say when you did your mask for the core and got your levels right you should have also increased colour saturation for the core as it looks grey in your image. When it usually looks a bit more magenta in other images.

The fine nebula around Orion also looks a bit grey to me and it'd be nice to make it look that slightly greyish blue.

From here the easiest way to do it would be to use the magic wand tool in PS and select the core, feather it heavily (30-40 pixels) and play with selective colour (start with the neutrals and add magenta) or colour balance tool and add blues. Then those outer neb areas again use magic wand to select, feather and selective colour and see which one affects the grey - it may be neutrals again. And try to add some blue into it.

Again that is being picky as it is a very nice Orion.

Greg.

thanks for the tips Greg. I would be very interested to see where you think it should be at - do you mind if i send you a file - PM coming