Re: [APML] Southern Cross and Wide feild Milky Way

["Alson Wong" <alsonwong@earthlink.net>]

I use a ProMaster diffusion filter to achieve a result similar to Fujii's.  I take one exposure with the filter and one without, then combine the two images in Picture Window.  At first I had been combining them using the Blend function, but I like the effect using the Lighten function better.

 

This image of Crux and Carina was created using Lighten:

http://home.earthlink.net/~alsonwong/crux-car.htm

 

This image of Centarus, Crux, and Carina was created using Blend:

http://home.earthlink.net/~alsonwong/centauru.htm

 

Allen Hwang creates the same effect in a single exposure using the same filter by leaving the filter on for only part of the exposure.

----- Original Message -----

From: Monte Wilson

To: astro-photo@seds.org

Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 8:31 PM

Subject: Re: [APML] Southern Cross and Wide feild Milky Way

While PS is probably capable of doing it, that soft filter he uses can't be too hard to get. As far as I can remember he wasn't adding images either. It was just one shot. Where is he these days I haven't seen much of his work lately.