Lagoon from under down under

graham.hobart (Graham stevens) · #1 29-07-2012, 12:46 AM

Greetings, took some lagoon with the 60Da , she's a beauty of a nebula.
Cheers
Graz
Canon 60da, Tak TSA 120, SSAG with mini guidescope, CGEM.

rustigsmed (Russell) · #2 05-08-2012, 02:57 PM

nice job!

Shiraz (Ray) · #3 07-08-2012, 11:54 AM

that's a fine image Graham, excellent detail and luminosity. Most of the other images posted here seem to have bit more red, but I found it to be real tricky to boost the red much without making the whole thing look too neon.
Regards Ray

graham.hobart (Graham stevens) · #4 07-08-2012, 12:18 PM

Cheers Ray, was trying to tone it back as last effort was flouro!!
Graham

Poita (Peter) · #5 07-08-2012, 01:38 PM

Have you tried that technique of duplicating the layer pin photoshop and overlaying with the soft-light function to increase the colour?

I can post an example if you like, I just tried it with your image and it worked pretty well for a 2 second procedure.

graham.hobart (Graham stevens) · #6 07-08-2012, 01:50 PM

Peter, haven't much experience in PS. Trying to learn a little PI, and mainly use Star Tools.
Could you post your version?
Graham

Poita (Peter) · #7 07-08-2012, 02:48 PM

This is a super quickie, and it is from youir already compressed image, but anyway, I just duplicated the layer and changed the mode to 'soft-light'.

Poita (Peter) · #8 07-08-2012, 02:53 PM

Probably easier to see side-by-side. Some of the nebulosity can be retained if I had duplicated the layer again, and changed the layer mode to 'luminosity' to bring it back up again.
I'll do that later if you like. I got the technique from those video links I posted a while back.

I don't know if it looks any better or not, I like both versions, it is all in the eye of the beholder really.