Thanks everyone for the comments. With any luck I can pull of an image which is a bit different from the norm.
Bob this image is a crop unfortunately. I need to do this to minimise the field curvature visible in the image. No flattener in place.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
Hi, Paul. I agree with Rick. Going further, you've managed to produce a stunningly contrasty (Fred would say punchy) image which at the same time shows faint outer features and razor sharp detail and excellent saturation in the brightest bits, and yet a strong sense that the spider is far brighter than the environs.
I was comparing with our version. I think that by throwing hours and aperture at it, we've got more of the super-faint stuff, but the price is that to try to maintain a feeling that the spider is very very bright, we've almost totally lost any kind of inner detail. (as the engineers say, 'Price, features, time to market; pick any two.')
Well done!
Best,
Mike n Trish
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Without doubt aperture will rule every time. I noted that your image is certainly brighter across the board but some of my image has had this reduced to produced that contrasty looking image. There are negatives to producing 3D looking images. Inevitably you have to trade off one thing for another.
That inner core has to be handled very much like M42 in a lot of ways. It has to look bright but not too bright to lose detail. Then again it has to be bright enough not to look like the light is not being respected.
This image is a long way off completion and this will be the last time I will provide an update before the final image is shown. It will no doubt go through many processing attempts before I am happy with the result.
