[APML] Orion Re-Processed - Opinions sought

["Eddie Guscott" <eddie.guscott@blueyonder.co.uk>]

Inspired by the recent wonderful wide field postings of Orion by Andreas
Rorig and Marco Lorenzi, I went back and re-processed my wide field Orion
film image, and seek opinions on how I have done (My PS skills are improving
but not quite there yet :-)

2 x 20mins stacked/OM1 & Zuiko 50mm F1.8 lens at F4/E200 slide film

My original processing looked a bit harsh by comparison:
http://www.astropics.co.uk/orion_ave1.jpg

Re-Processed here:  http://www.astropics.co.uk/orion_ave2_16_1SGBNR.jpg

I noticed in a recent Tony Hallas post that he can "multi scan" 16 times to
reduce S/N. Vue Scan has a similar function and so I re-scanned the slide
using "multi pass multi scanning" set at 16 passes to hopefully get better
S/N.

In processing the image I could not get all of the detail in Barnards Loop
that was present in the original slide so I blended in the red channel as a
luminance layer (RRGB??) which seems to have had the desired effect.

Anyway, I would appreciate any comment or critiscism on what I have done

Thank you

Eddie Guscott



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