Beautiful image of the Tulip James. Excellent processing run through as usual. That's a very good tip for getting a less harsh result using the HDR tool when even a setting of 8 is just a tad too much.
Beautiful work James!! - Such a fine rendition of this target with special appreciation for the control over tonality, I'm hoping to finish shooting this myself soon - I only have 1 session so far though!
That’s a great image of the Tulip James, I liked your version with the stars pulled back! I Didn’t know the invert of magenta is green! Great tutorial! When you cloned the image then used the multi scale transformation tool, then added the two images back together, I take it you used pixelmath with a 50/50 ratio to blend them together? Great colours on the final image! My mouse sometimes refuses to work altogether, I hope it’s nothing to do with age😀 Clear skies!
Thanks Simon! Yes.. magenta and green. I learned about that one early on to get rid of those magenta stars in SHO images. Its like a "life hack" for astrophotography, lol. Yea.. I used pixelmath to add them. I just did an a+b to get that result. I should have shown that in the video.
Looks fantastic. When it comes to stars I always think 'less is more', but have had the hardest time with that principle. I know a lot of my images don't reflect this philosophy, but I am getting a lot more critical of my subs and processed images now. My tunnel vision used to be terrible. With age comes wisdom. Great job James. Clear skies!
I agree on the stars. I definitely prefer pin prick stars.. but I also pixel peep a lot. If I recall.. the one with the stars de-emphizied the most had dark rings around them..noticeable when zooming in a bit. I'm going to experiment with shorter subs to see if I can tighten up the stars a bit more. Thanks for the comments Jason. CS!
btw.. my local Austin group has a FB and a discord channel. You can find it on FB by looking for Austin astrophotographers. Its a good group with a lot of experience and skill. I learned a lot from them. Most members are central TX but its not exclusive to that area. Every now and then we do get together. A couple months ago a few members spent a long weekend in Marathon. Check it out if you are interested :)
Sounds great! I found it and have requested access. I'd certainly meet up with ya'll. I'm on Lake Livingston in a Bortle 4, but most of my neighbors aren't into astro. They love seeing my images and I get nagged a lot to show them, but it would be great to meet up with some cool folks. I am part of the Houston Astronomical Society, but I haven't been to a meeting in ages. They are becoming more of a political activism group than an astro group. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm in!
Very interesting video. When I process in PI I first do the following to each Light Master (Ha, O3, S2)...I use Star X to remove stars. Then I use Noise X to remove noise from just the starless image. Then I stretch to make Non Linear. Next I take each Filter master and bring out the detail, color . Then I combine all 3 and tweak to taste .
Nice Tom. It is interesting to see and hear how others process their data. Everyone does it a little different. I'm always trying new things. For my cygnus wall shot, I ended up removing the stars while still linear.. although I still did a the channel combine before working curves.
Great Of Tulip James, I have seen some Images Of The Black Hole Cygnus X-1! You could Try Including it in your Frame. It Emits a Massive Bow Shock shaped Nebula!
@@DSOImager I guess You Should Definitely Give That A shot in HOO palette. Because the Bow Shock is Mostly Dust That Can Be Recorded in Broadband as well, How Bout Give That a Try with your Color Cam :) im not an Expert at This But im Just Telling You what I know will work hehe 👍🏻
