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Originally Posted by SkyViking
What a great image! And there's certainly a lot to look at in the background too. It's an interesting galaxy with lots of HII regions and blue supergiants. You have brought out the details very well. Thanks for sharing another top shot!
The colours are beautiful - but perhaps a tad too saturated just on the galaxy itself, for me it looks almost turquoise - could be my monitor though?
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You are correct that there is lots of green channel present in this galaxy mixing with the blue - I see it on my calibrated monitors. The last couple of years I started pushing color as far as I could and use color noise and detail blow out to judge if I had gone too far. Also I have not been binning my color for several years now as I have found much detail in the color channels and use them for synthetic Lum.
We are all competing with colorful and fantastic CGI (aka AVATAR). Color and contrast are major tools in getting our images noticed by the general public and I admit to trying to push it too the edge. I appeciate that you have noticed this.
We spend lots of time and money on this hobby what many of us do is really technical art. Sometimes the hardest thing is to find out what people think of my work, so I really mean it when I say the comments and suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
Sorry about rambling on
Regards,
