[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by atalas

Nice work Greg.

Cheers Louie.

Originally Posted by Ross G

Amazing galaxy photo Greg.

Great colours and detail.


Ross.

Thanks Ross.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Well to me it looks pretty good Greg the stars look ok to me too, you have some hard critics perhaps the blue is a little too cyan-white in the arms and I like a less magenta more yellow core area but it's certainly not a big issue and the background looks fine to me ... overall looks good with plenty of detail.

I did however notice there are two bright stars missing from your shot near the galaxy, I am assuming something in your layering has blotted them out...see if you can spot'em

Mike

Yes I know the 2 you mean There is a bit of ringing and I'll do a repro but it'll take a bit as that was from early in the processing with deconvolution.

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Hi Greg if you do a PS histogram comparison you will notice that the image I fiddled with compares favourably to yours

attached is a screen dump of what i did with your original large JPG image before resizing

I like yours indeed, if you look at the larger JPG full screen I noticed some uneveness in the overall background colour on my monitor

As you said and I concur just a personal preference

Thanks Trevor. At one stage the image was slightly blotchy in the background, not sure if that is what you mean. Cheers.

Originally Posted by astroron

Beautiful Image Greg, No quibbles here but then I am not an imager just an oserver
Love it
Cheers

Thanks Ron

Originally Posted by cventer

Lovely Greg

One of my favourite galaxies. I like your colors just fine.

I too on my monitor get fairly severe bright rings on some stars.

I cant critique realy as my images are nowhere near this quality yet and I would be happy with an image half as good. But if you clean up those rings it will be even better.

Louis had some nice steps in his tutorials on his site that dealt with removing these kind of halos

Thanks Chris. I'll be able to handle those rings but after the enter into the image using the noise tool reduces them but also the colour saturation as well. So I think a redo of the deconvolution blending step.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

...bah, hard arse

Although on another look Greg, it appears your HII regions in the arms are looking kinda yellow now, did you repro..?

Mike

No repro yet. It wasn't me

Originally Posted by allan gould

Wow - 11 hours of my favourite galaxy. Very nicely captured and it looks great on my monitor.
I must say that I wonder how many ap devotees actually use a calibrated monitor. I was all over the place until spending some considerable $ to get this correct but then again colour is really a personal taste unless the photo is strictly calibrated (recommend a program such as eXcalibrator and Spyder3).
My 2c but love the subtleness shown in your image.

Thanks Allan.

Originally Posted by centauri

What the? The colour is wrong?
Unless you are looking at a RAW or similar file and not a compressed image AND then you have a properly calibrated monitor then you must be joking.

I say bloody well done Greg and leave it as is mate.

Thanks for that. I am always striving for a perfect image and its a bit of a hard thing to achieve. So I don't mind reworking the steps where it went a bit wrong and getting it right.

Greg.