RE: [APML] Processing Help = Leonid Challenge

["R. Scott Ireland" <ireland@gate.net>]

Hi Thom,

I'm afraid the original image is far too clipped to get a good final result.
The disparity between the levels of the central part of the image and the
remainder are too much to adequately conquer.

That said, here's a version which was processed "to death".  Several A/V
masks were required, as well as extensive levels and curves adjustments.
Unfortunately, I was not able to equalize the central part of the image
without losing too much image detail.  The thumbnail shown for this image is
your original:

http://www.rsiphotos.com/gallery_detail.php?CategoryID=93&PhotoID=157

Please ignore the print sale stuff at the top of the page - this is
automatically inserted on my uploads.

Take care,

Scott

website:  http://www.rsiphotos.com/
email:  ireland@gate.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org]On
> Behalf Of Thom Iwancio
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:21 PM
> To: astro-photo@seds.org
> Subject: Re: [APML] Processing Help = Leonid Challenge
>
>
> Geoff, point taken.  I think I was just trying to show how much "lipstick"
> this pig needs.  The original scan is in a Photoshop .psd format.  What
> would you recommend for an image size/res for me to republish in a jpg or
> tif format?  I get habitually harassed from some of my buddies because I
> have a broadband cable connection so full CD sized downloads are
> no problem
> to me, but dial up user choke on such.  As a side note, it is a
> real shame I
> wasted a super opportunity by simply not stopping down the lens more.
> Lessons learned arrg.....
>
> Thom Iwancio
> Elgin, SC
> www.machunter.org
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <astropix@att.net>
> To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [APML] Processing Help = Leonid Challenge
>
>
> > Thom...
> >
> >      You could get more immediate response by making available a
> higher-res
> > JPEG on your web-space... a separate page with just the raw scan in
> hi-quality
> > JPEG... *not* GIF... or making a download link for a TIFF file
> would work
> as
> > well. It looks like a toughie, to be quite honest... and
> perhaps not worth
> the
> > effort. I need practice, however and if you post a JPEG version
> I'll spend
> a
> > few moments on it... but I'm no accomplished processor by any stretch!
> >
> >  Best...
> >
> >  Geoff Powers
> >
> >
> >
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