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Originally Posted by jase
Excellent work Mike. There is no doubt the blue halo is present, alas I agree with Peter in that the image is too blue. Equally the pink hues of the nebula look rather muted, lacking vibrancy. It may help if you balance your black point better (as per the attached). Raising the blue black point would address the "too blue" issue. Personally I'd also be raising the black point of the other channels to get more saturation, but thats a matter of taste. This aside, a top of the shelf image in all. Details are exceptional and you've handled the vast dynamic range of the target very well. Well done.
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Howdy Jase
He, he, I must be a non conformist...I balanced it intentionally like this
I know some prefer a little less blue and that's fine but it is clear my eye prefers a slight blue bias
. However, it makes no difference to the existence of the envelope and curtain and they remain slightly blue regardless nor does it change the fact that there is
blue in the Lagoon 
. Sure adjusting the histograms adjusts the colour from less blue to more grey, plus it blackens the dark areas in the image and gives the colours more contrast. Sometimes I like all this but in this case I didn't like what it did to the image and it was more muted colours and grayer dark areas that I was after - call me stupid
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That's the fun thing about this game, you can apply rules and regulations to images but it isn't necessarily always the answer
Cheers for your thoughts though and in a perfect world they would be very sound ....I'm just not perfect
Mike