Nice image Clinton! I love it too. I took my first images of it last week and have been on a high ever since.
Some of the advice I got and I think applies to you too, is to under expose the centre of M42 the Trapezium, do you have photoshop? If so this tutorial will come in handy
http://www.astropix.com/HTML/J_DIGIT/LAYMASK.HTM
I'm yet to try it myself.
Keep it up and looking forward to seeing your progress! and mine
