Re: [APML] Leonid Animation

[Matt BenDaniel <matt@starmatt.com>]

At 02:56 PM 11/21/2002 +0000, astropix@att.net wrote:
> Matt...
>
>     Nice job with the animation... 

Thanks.

>took a few to load on my machine, but my 
>dial-up connection is running way slow today... 45333. 

Yah, it is 1.8MB. Broadband is beautiful.

>BTW... the white point 
>adjustment on the composite improved the appearence of the meteor trails 
>muchly. Now they look a lot closer to what I saw visually... some green, a 
>little red with the biggest ones white and bright. I suppose that using SGBNR 
>on the individual frames of the animation would be difficult... wouldn't it 
>confuse the smoke trane for noise? 

SGBNR would definitely help. The problem is that you have to leave Photoshop to do it. I wish SGBNR was a PS plugin.

>I tried my hand with SGBNR for the first 
>time on the TIFF file from the Leonid image I posted tuesday... it made such a 
>difference I replaced the JPEG version with a smoothed copy.
>
>     http://home.att.net/~astropix/Leonids_tripod_1.html

Yup, SGBNR made an improvement.

> Got any more Leonids to show us?   :O)

Maybe. I have more rolls using a fisheye lens.


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Matt BenDaniel
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