Bubble Reqork V2

[daz]

Managed to get some flats and bias for this now, and here is my attempt at the processing.

Pleased at how this is coming on, but happy for constructive criticism

[Tim]

I have a criticism. What's a "reqork"?

Everything else is just dandy! :D:D

Really nice Daz, very smooth and detailed.

[daz]

LOL!!

The beer has reached my finger tips then!! Ssshwell!

Thanks Tim

[Beyond_Vision]

Super job Daz you sure you havent been slipping SteveL some jaffa cakes

Regards

Kevin

[barkis]

That's all we need. Drunk in charge of SGL.HehHeh!.

Never mind the spelling Daz. if you can do image processing whilst inebriated, the future looks good..

Ron.

[Tim]

Are you going to do the colour as well? This is very funky in HST palette, but it really seperates the bright bits into distinct areas.

[Whippy]

What's the exposure time on this amigo?

Tony..

[SteveL]

What's the exposure time on this amigo?

48 * 300 seconds + 20 * 600 seconds

From here I believe:

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-deep-sky/86716-bubble-4th-5th-sept.html

[Coco]

48 * 300 seconds + 20 * 600 seconds

From here I believe:

http://stargazerslounge.com/imaging-deep-sky/86716-bubble-4th-5th-sept.html

Know all...

as others have said... superb image..

Guy..

[Whippy]

Yep, just spotted that. Can't see for looking sometimes....

Very nice mate , you can see where the time has gone into it. If I have a criticism (and it's a very minor one) I think you've very slightly overdone the smoothing (noise ninja?) and you've lost some of the detail because of it.

Tony..

[Tim]

At Kelling Daz I will show you a very easy trick to keep the detail and the smooth. Sometimes you only want to ninja certain bits

[Whippy]

Noise brush?

[SteveL]

sharpen/deconv + layer mask rub through? select colour range, invert and apply NN?

[daz]

Yes it was noise ninja. OK, a little too much, then.

Have been looking again this morning in daylight, and I would agree. Also, some hot pixels have made it through, so need to work on them....

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

[daz]

At Kelling Daz I will show you a very easy trick to keep the detail and the smooth. Sometimes you only want to ninja certain bits

Thanks TJ

[Tim]

Noise ninja is great, but it does get rid of the bits you want to keep as well.

As Steve mentioned, do the NN on a seperate layer, turn it into a mask, paint through the bits you want to keep sharp, blur the edges of your painting a little, then invert the mask, and set the blend opacity to something that looks right, a little at a time is best.

It is dead easy, but not easy to explain Richie Jarvis showed me another trick from Ken Crawford website as well, where in effect you do the opposite, and selectively sharpen the very edges of the details. Again, easier to demo than to explain. Worth watching Kens videos though.

[jgs001]

Nicely done Daz.. I've be intrigued to see those tricks mentioned.

[ASIGN_Baz]

You make it look so easy! I would love to shoot this target. Nice work mate!

Baz.

[MartinB]

Very impressive Daz, you've done a great job on the processing as far as I can see (my work monitor doesn't show dim areas very well so can't comment on those). You've done a great job on the bubble itself to show the bright detail without burning it out

[daz]

@Baz - LOL! And I would love to shoot some of yours :)

@Martin, thanks very much