Me too, Lagoon.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

After seeing some inspiring images of the Lagoon I dug out some old data and reprocessed.
Quite happy with the result, managed to bring out more of the blue fringing the Mike showed us in his image. Also achieved more detail in the cloud structures too.

Here's the original.
http://i1172.photobucket.com/albums/...lagoonbest.jpg

Cheers,

Justin.

[DJScotty (Scott)]

That's nice. I really like the crop. Beautiful colours!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by DJScotty

That's nice. I really like the crop. Beautiful colours!

Thanks Scott!

The Lagoon certainly has a feast of colour, always a guess on how to process them.

Cheers,

Justin.

[RickS (Rick)]

A big improvement, Justin. The original was quite decent but the repro is outstanding.

Cheers,
Rick.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

That's a cracker Justin! You should really upload them to Astrobin.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

that's a great repro Justin.
I was actually processing the lagoon last night, sometimes I'd end up with a whitish core other times purple. this looks pretty natural, so I might have another crack tonight.

Cheers,

Rusty

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Looks much nicer, and with more detail, Justin

[Camelopardalis (Dunk)]

That's a beauty Justin lots of detail and colour to feast on.

Never get tired of the Lagoon

[jase (Jason)]

A very tidy image Justin. Did you specifically perform depth of field processing? The crop has a pleasing 3d feel to it with a sharp foreground and soft background. Well done.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by RickS

A big improvement, Justin. The original was quite decent but the repro is outstanding.

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks Rick!

The way the weather is going I'll be doing more repro's, all good though fun to see if I can improve on previous processing.

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

That's a cracker Justin! You should really upload them to Astrobin.

Thanks Kevin!

Yeh I know .
Got all my images on photo bucket, and being an old fart don't like change.

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

that's a great repro Justin.
I was actually processing the lagoon last night, sometimes I'd end up with a whitish core other times purple. this looks pretty natural, so I might have another crack tonight.

Cheers,

Rusty

Thanks Rusty!

Do you process your raw images or convert them to tiff?
I nearly always convert to tiff, it seems to preserve colour better and make it easier to process.
It also has an added advantage of reducing the star size, don't know why just my observation.

Originally Posted by Larryp

Looks much nicer, and with more detail, Justin

Thanks Laurie!

I'm happy with the detail, so easy to process it out if I'm not careful.

Originally Posted by Camelopardalis

That's a beauty Justin lots of detail and colour to feast on.

Never get tired of the Lagoon

Thanks Dunk!

Yep loads of colour in the Lagoon, no channel swapping required just saturation.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Rex]

Great colours and nice detail Justin. Well done mate. A large improvement from your previous effort.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by jase

A very tidy image Justin. Did you specifically perform depth of field processing? The crop has a pleasing 3d feel to it with a sharp foreground and soft background. Well done.

Thanks Jase!

Wish I could say I was intentionally going for depth of field but it's just happenstance.

Originally Posted by Rex

Great colours and nice detail Justin. Well done mate. A large improvement from your previous effort.

Thanks Rex!

Cheers,

Justin.

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Really nice color ... all the best !

Leo

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by Leonardo70

Really nice color ... all the best !

Leo

Thanks Leo!

Cheers,

Justin.