June Imaging Challenge - M8 (Lagoon)

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Wow! I'm really looking forward to getting my 80 ED now if that's the sort of shot I can hope to take. Nice one Narayan

[tornado33]

Nice pics folks. Heres a reprocessed closeup taken with my 10 inch scope, last year. Iths three 5 min ISO 400 images stacked and processed in Phtoshop. EOS 300d camera.
http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/temp/lagoon%20final.jpg
A shot taken with my 400mm F6.3 lens http://www.users.on.net/~josiah/temp...iffid400mm.jpg
Its two 5 min ISO 800 shots.
Scott

[tornado33]

I forgot to mention I sort of cheated, by using Curves in Photoshop, a mate showed me how to enhance the lack of red that unmodified DSLR's have, to make it more natural looking.
Scott

[atalas]

Looks great Scott well done! using curves in photoshop is not cheating .

Louie

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Nice shot Scott. Yep "curves" come in very handy for "bringing out" that missing red.

[fringe_dweller]

Scott - if the information wasnt buried in the shot, you wouldnt be able to bring it out in the first place - so in no way is that cheating - if thats cheating, that would mean all of NASA's shots were cheating, as they use all sorts of trickery to bring details out. That would mean stacking dozens/hundreds of webcam/digital shots was cheating ect.
Kearn

[Brendan]

heck. thats a greay shot seeker. love your work.

[EddieT (Eddie)]

Very nice Scott!

I fourth or fifth (lost track) the notions that using curves is not cheating. If curves is cheating then Masking is outright fraud! (Please don't ask, I don't have time to write another article just now

I'm slowly writing an article on image processing ethics, but to quote the bottom line, "There is no law that says we cannot correct the abberations introduced by our imaging systems."

Besides, curves as a tool, is used in all signal processing, not just imaging.