Re: [APML] Lagoon and Triffid Region

[Matt BenDaniel <matt@starmatt.com>]

Loke,

Excellent, as usual. I like the contrast a lot. Nice and deep. I'd bring down the red shadows and midrange a bit.

Matt

At 01:54 AM 5/29/2002 -0700, lkt wrote:

>        OK, here is another shot of the M8 (Lagoon) and M20 (Triffid) region in
>Sagittarius. This was taken with an 8" F/1.5 Schmidt camera with
>tricolor filters on hypered Tech Pan. HC110 Dil. B was used to process
>the film for 14 mins. This developer was selected due to the extreme
>brightness of the core of M8 and M20 which means that the image would
>have a lot of dynamic range. Even so, the red channel was done with a
>composite of a 5 min and a 25 min exposure with a #92 filter. The long
>25 min exposure with the #92 filter can extract a lot of the red
>nebulosity in this region but the cores of M8 & M20 were saturated. More
>exposure data is on the webpage. Comments are welcome.
>
>http://www.starryscapes.com/nebula/m8_m20_wide.html
>
>Loke

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