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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Pumping them out there Mike - Very nice indeed!  I love the subject matter and would like to do some myself soon after I get some of the loud & wide nebula stuff out of my system for a while (if that's possible).
BTW, my view is that striving for "perfection" in many ways is not seeing the forest for the trees. I see the forest in your image Mike!!!  
Buuut (  ) IM( Very)HO a little less noise would make a difference in the full res image (where you invite us to look at the trees) but understand the difficulty in doing so when there's a preponderance of dark background. Yes, alas, I am a bit of a noise-a-phobe. But hey, I guess my forest is a pure pine plantation ... no oaks or eucalypts messing things up  .
Thus ends my painfully long & cliched analogy 
Visit Wiruna again soon so we see some more!
Cheers, Marcus |
Thanks Marcus, I love analogies
and I am glad you liked my forest
I am at a loss though as to why the modest background noise vsisible in the full frame full res version is such a bother? I guess I don't have anything to compare to as I don't usually see full size, full res images posted really. In the smaller 1.5meg version I offered to everyone as well, the background looks pretty well silky smooth on my monitor, in fact Fabio Cavicchio of Astroart used these exact words marvelling at it.. so go figure
At the end of the day "I" don't like the artificially smoothed images that have become so popular and even these are very rarely displayed at full frame full res. When they are many of them clearly show the artifacts of the smoothing process and particularly how the smoothness varies across the image, so which is worse..?
Luckily many have found my two latest images enjoyable not for there processing perfection (or lack of) but the many other aspects of the image that make it a rare representation of a small piece of our less imaged and much more beautiful southern skies
thanks again mate
Mike
