Re: [APML] An old Cygnus image posted

[Matt BenDaniel <matt@exceloncorp.com>]

Mikkel,

Nice image.

At 06:24 PM 5/5/2001 +0200, Mikkel Steine wrote:
>Second, I'd like to post an image to this list for the first time!
>It's an image I took in 1997 on Ectachrome 400 Elite II. 

I don't think that film is supposed to be very good for astro.

>I used a
>Nikon EM and the 50 mm Nikon E-series lens piggyback on a C14 (Chuck's
>images reminded me of this old image and I wanted to see what I could
>do with it). I think it was a 25 min exposure. No filter. Stopped down
>one or two stops.
>
>You can clearly see that the image has different focus from left to
>right. The lens is to blame and I have upgraded to a 50 mm Nikkor lens
>since then. The image was scanned with Coolscan LS-20 and processed in
>Photoshop. Here's what I did:
>
>- duplicate layer and invert and overlay (100%) to the first layer
>- adjusted layers (first auto-layers and then some more adjustment of
>colors) Had to remove quite a bit of green.

Why didn't you use curves instead?

>- resized image
>
>I'm struggling a bit with the colors, since I'm slightly color blind.
>It seems the image is a bit too blue. Is it me? 

I think some more green needs to be taken out.
Also could some anti-vignetting.
Did you get a meteor on the left?

Matt

>Also I think the
>overlay process made the brightest start "too bright". Oh, well, here
>you go:
>
>http://www.messier45.com/privat/astrophoto/Cygnus.jpg (ca 200 kb)

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