Another Repro, Lagoon Nebula.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Hi,

Another repro while waiting for the moon to go.
The Lagoon nebula is like the orion nebula to process, so many ways and hard to balance.

In this repro I wanted to bring out more out lying nebulosity and enhance colours and contrast,sounds quite easy but it's taken me a few hours to get it to this stage.

Supplied repro on left, original on right.

The images are a combination of eight, five and two minute exposures at ISO 800, a total 1 hour 52 minutes.

Using equipment listed below.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Repro certainly brings out the faint nebulosity, Justin, but I actually prefer the original-I think the colours are more natural. A great image anyway!

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by Larryp

Repro certainly brings out the faint nebulosity, Justin, but I actually prefer the original-I think the colours are more natural. A great image anyway!

Thanks Laurie!

Was a bit too much saturation, I've replaced the repro and backed off on saturation 15%, but I'm one of those that like a lot colour and contrast.
It seems to help highlight some details .

Cheers,

Justin.

[swannies1983 (Dan)]

Excellent job bringing out the fainter details without introducing too much noise. Well done!

[cventer]

Vey nice. Love it.

[Ross G]

Vary nice looking photo Justin.

Ross.

[David Fitz-Henr]

Nice image Justin - the repro does do a better job in the fainter regions at bringing out detail.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

Originally Posted by swannies1983

Excellent job bringing out the fainter details without introducing too much noise. Well done!

Thanks Dan!

Slowly learning that there's more data to bring out in the background, I usually destroy it.

Originally Posted by cventer

Vey nice. Love it.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Ross G

Vary nice looking photo Justin.

Ross.

Thanks Ross!

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

Nice image Justin - the repro does do a better job in the fainter regions at bringing out detail.

Thanks David!

Cheers,

Justin.