More Orion

[beren]

Gday a M42 pic with the ED80/D70 combo and a wider one of the Orion constellation {damn didn't frame Betelguese well }.Tried some diffraction spikes in PS for some effect, dont know if its overpowering or not

[iceman (Mike)]

Wow Stuart, they're great! Both nice black skies.

Love the widefield and the closeup.

The diffraction spikes aren't overpowering, however I don't think they look as good as "naturally" produced ones via a spider vein or fishing line.

Great images.

[h0ughy (David)]

Nice Stuart, what lens on the D70?

[Ric]

Great images Stuart, nice details and colours. I dont think the spikes are overpowering at all.

cheers

[ving (David)]

nice one stuart. the difraction spikes look pretty good
the flames is in there... i wonder if the horsehead is too?

[Striker (Tony)]

Nicely done Stuart.

I dont mind those defraction spikes atleast there not over powering like the ones I put on my helix image.

Well done

[ving (David)]

just tried to view exif data on the image and there is none... what were your settings?

[leon]

Nice one Stuart, cant get enough of that one, but i dont think i'll be seeing it for a while, to much smoke, can hardly see the back door

Cheers leon

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Nicely done Stuart Good to see you getting into some more imaging. You've been pretty quiet over there for a while. I thought that lovely wife of yours might have sold off all your equipment on you

[beren]

Thanks very much
PS:Houghy the nikon 18-70 DXED
PSS: Ving tried a number of exposure times ranging from 60-140s to try some mask processing in PS SC2 to stop the core of M42 getting blown out , real juggling act

[atalas]

Nice shot Stuat !