Saturdays Sun - 28th Jan

[markt]

I woke this morning to high pressure and clearish blue skies which makes a pleasant change! As I was setiing up I could see all the contrails littering the sky and the hint of some higher clouds on their way over. I wasn't optimistic of results as I looked at the preview image in ICCapture - the limb looked to have waves rolling around it and could occasionally see the tell tale signs of this high cloud over the face of the sun. Undeterred I carried on with my captures...

It was only when I saw the pre-processed images that were coming out of avistack that I knew that I was going to be in for a half decent image. Rather than use any wavelets i decied to adopt the smart sharpen method; I had to tweak my usual post processing technique, but i'm finding i need to do less to my images, which has got to be a good thing. It was finished off with a couple of very weak iterations of USM.

This, as usual for my full disks, is a 6 pane mosaic, assembled in IMerge, taken with DS40 @ f21, DMK31 camera. I present the b&w and colour versions; I prefer the b&w but know others like colour so this is shown aswell. How does the colour scheme work for you? I'm colour blind and struggle with 'shades' so critique appreciated...

full disk b&w by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Full size version HERE!!!

full disk colour by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Full size version HERE!!!

Hope you like them!

Mark

[Photosbykev]

Personally I like the b/w version for the detail it reveals, whereas the colour version is pretty. Both are excellent, the b/w is better:)

[markt]

Thanks Kev, you have exactly the same take as me: way I see it is that as i'm only running at 40mm aperture and so resolution and hence detail is at an absolute premium and colouring it definitely takes the edge of what detail is there in the b&w version.

[dennisroberts]

I agree that the monochrome shows better detail, but for your info. the colour seems spot on - I must say that if you have colour vision problems it is not apparent from your image. Fascinating photos - thanks.

Dennis

[markt]

Thanks Dennis To me the colour in my image seems yuck which is why I normally err away from them...

[Montana]

It sure looks good on here Mark in extra large!

I really like colour, it's cheerful but it is nice to always show both.

Alexandra

[Bizibilder]

I like them both - the coloured version always looks better on a monitor.

[markt]

Thanks Alexandra and Biz!

Here's a variation on the colour version with a bit more saturation and vibrancy...

full disk colour 2 by Mark Townley, on Flickr

Which colour version do people prefer best?

[Carbon60]

Stunning images again Mark; I like them all. Colour and Mono each have their specific attributes and are attractive in their own ways, respectively.

Regards

Stu.

[smerral]

I agree with the above - both are good and the colour is spot on.

[Zul]

Very nice!