Another version of the Horse + Ha

[Hagar (Doug)]

This time I have added a couple of hours of Ha data I captured last night. The data was captured using the same imaging rig as used at Snake Valley to capture the RGB. The Ha was captured in 10 minute subs and blended Ha-HaRGB.
A straight Ha lum and RGB left the image quite salmon pink in colour so I blended the R and Ha first to keep a reasonable colour depth.

All images captured with QHY8 OSC camera and Takahashi FSQ 106ED.
Images registered using Registar and blended using PS CS3.

Hope you enjoy and thanks for looking.

[allan gould]

Like the Ha shot - the colour shot seems a bit psychodelic for my taste, but still realy good depth and framing

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nice shots, Doug

I like the red in the first one

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

the raw ha luminance looks the goods great detail, im all new to this but the crop of the image in HaLha RGB the colours are a little skew and it looks like you have lost a bit of the Ha detailing.

[AlexN]

Yep.. The Ha is nice... The colour blend theres a few things that look a little odd... The stars look a bit strange, probably because they were a lot bigger in the OSC image, and greatly reduced in the Ha image.. this can be difficult..

What ratio did you blend Ha:R ? I generally use between 50~70% ha, and blend them in screen mode in PS CS4, also make sure you're using luminosity blend mode for the straight Ha, and set the RGB layer as Colour. This generally makes things a little easier... I usually set the lum at betwee 40~60% opacity too.. Usually you would set the lum to 100% and the RGB to a lower ratio for LRGB imaging, however I find with Ha: OSC imaging, if you have the Ha at 100% you get that salmon pinkness to the reds, even if you've blended Ha+R...

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nice one Doug. Saturation is a bit over the top on the RGB version IMO but you have plenty of smooth data to play with here now.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Thanks for the comments everyone. I have taken another look at the image and the saturation is a bit much. Here is another with the saturation wound down a little.

[desler]

Wow Doug, I wish I could comment or make some sort of suggestion, Apart from sitting here for a couple of minutes with my mouth slightly open, there's not much left, lovely work.

Darren

[lacad01 (Adam)]

Beautiful work

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Originally Posted by allan gould

Like the Ha shot - the colour shot seems a bit psychodelic for my taste, but still realy good depth and framing

I'm the same - the colour shot just seems too garish to my eyes

Dave

[DavidU (Dave)]

Doug, the Sidonio is great !The Ha is special

[bmitchell82 (Brendan)]

if the photo was black and white ide say thats a bonza shot, the colours of the stars and bits that should be something around blue/white are greeny colours. It might just be me but it doesn't seem quite right, almost as if the Ha is shooting everything else in the foot. keep at the PS CS3 Sidonio actions they will come together!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Well Doug I actually think a Sidonio is really not necessary, it looks pretty ok to me really...

Nice job, a pleasing image

Mike

[Hagar (Doug)]

Originally Posted by desler

Wow Doug, I wish I could comment or make some sort of suggestion, Apart from sitting here for a couple of minutes with my mouth slightly open, there's not much left, lovely work.

Darren

Thanks Darren, When are we going to see some of your work again. Got to keep at it mate.

Originally Posted by lacad01

Beautiful work

Thanks

Originally Posted by dpastern

I'm the same - the colour shot just seems too garish to my eyes

Dave

Appreciate the comment Dave, The area is a very rich Ha area which does exhibit these rich colours, The first image was a bit over the top and maybe even the second one could be toned down a bit. It is hard getting the colour correct or at least as correct as we can think it should be. I think looking at the gray scale Ha image does give some idea of the richness of the Ha which is quite a bright red in colour.
The blue areas around the stars is a blue reflection nebula which possibly could show more blue in colour. Who knows, whatever floats your boat I suppose.
Thanks for the comment.

Originally Posted by DavidU

Doug, the Sidonio is great !The Ha is special

Originally Posted by bmitchell82

if the photo was black and white ide say thats a bonza shot, the colours of the stars and bits that should be something around blue/white are greeny colours. It might just be me but it doesn't seem quite right, almost as if the Ha is shooting everything else in the foot. keep at the PS CS3 Sidonio actions they will come together!

See comment above. Thanks for the comment Brendan.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Well Doug I actually think a Sidonio is really not necessary, it looks pretty ok to me really...

Nice job, a pleasing image

Mike

Thanks Mike, I am still having problems with the brightest stars but trying some work arounds. Blending Ha isn't straight forward by any means. Colour balance and star colour seem to be my biggest problems at the moment. Might have to mask in the RGB stars from the original image.
Any ideas appreciated.

[Jen]

nice work there Doug
You been a busy boy with this horsey

[dugnsuz (Doug)]

Ha all the way!