Thanks guys. I appreciate you taking the time to writing your comments.
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Excellent image Paul. You've "respected the light" extremely well  |
Yes the light has to be respected.
As I understand this, given the comment was made about my M42 image several years ago by David, the brighter bits should be bright and the darker areas should remain dark. I just wonder though how do we decide which bit is very dark and which bit is a little dark????
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Originally Posted by SkyViking
That's a fine looking image there Paul, and the Flame is really big! Nice colours too and great FOV.
I'd definily recommend you should go ahead and add Luminance, it really works wonders for the Horsehead and brings out all the dusty highlights. Generally, when using Ha there is great detail in the emission parts but the dark clouds look more 'flat' so to speak. Only issue you'd face with Luminance would be how to tame Alnitak, but you could do a selective blend with your Ha data in those parts. It'd be worth the effort for sure.
Top result, thanks for the view!
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Yes I was thinking that the dust would be better exposed and the black area at the bottom and top left would look better overall.
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Originally Posted by alpal
Hi Paul,
I had a second look at your picture.
To me - Alnitak was a bit overpowering.
I did some lassos with feathering & layers in PS &
I post this pic to show the difference.
I hope you don't mind?
Do you think it looks better?
cheers
Allan
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Actually Paul, Martin Pugh recommended me looking at the stars in general and I can see now that I did over look this. Thanks for taking the time to suggest this very same thing that Martin did.
