Deer lick group - work in progress
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 8:05 pm
Here's the lum channel that I've been working on recently. Such a cool grouping of galaxies. I'm really happy with the results from my workflow for the L channel which I wanted to quickly outline. (so I can remember too)
1) manual develop. I've recently learned to not stretch too hard because I can use #2 and #3 to bring out more detail without blowing stars as much
2) HDR brighten dark
3) HDR Tame or Reveal
4) deconv only area of interest
5) light deconv stars
6) Sharpen (large) area of interest
7) Sharpen (medium) area of interest
8) Track off and Denoise
9) Magic tighten stars
10) Depending on situation, Magic shrink stars
The lum channel is about 15 400s images from a C11 at f/5 and a Atik 460ex.
I still need to process RGB and make/process a color image. I usually use Gimp 2.9 to do final tweaking.
Lex
1) manual develop. I've recently learned to not stretch too hard because I can use #2 and #3 to bring out more detail without blowing stars as much
2) HDR brighten dark
3) HDR Tame or Reveal
4) deconv only area of interest
5) light deconv stars
6) Sharpen (large) area of interest
7) Sharpen (medium) area of interest
8) Track off and Denoise
9) Magic tighten stars
10) Depending on situation, Magic shrink stars
The lum channel is about 15 400s images from a C11 at f/5 and a Atik 460ex.
I still need to process RGB and make/process a color image. I usually use Gimp 2.9 to do final tweaking.
Lex