Recently I made some comments regarding how layer masking and selective noise reduction can impart a somewhat obvious processed look to an image, well todays APOD is a classic example of this IMO. While this is a wonderful galaxy and indeed overall a great image showing lots of interesting bits, the uneven application of the noise reduction and sharpening is obvious to me..?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ima...2008wendel.jpg
See how the centre is obviously sharper than the perifery, and the outer arms and sky have been overly smoothed in comparison? It looks like we are looking through a slightly steamed up window that has been cleared only in the middle.
Again I am not bagging the image as a whole (it is a great image allround) just some harmless observations regarding one aspect.
Mike