Re: [APML] Back to a film image-Rho Ophiuchus

[Ray Butler <ray.butler@nuigalway.ie>]

John,

You were going to scrap these wonderful shots?! Talk about high standards!

Ray "who has a tendency to shoot short exposures of many objects, and 
pays the penalty with noise" Butler


John Laborde wrote:

> Here is an image or rather two images in a two frame mosaic of Rho 
> Ophiuchus area I took last year. I didn't take it very far in the 
> processing except to scan the film. The scanned images were quit noisy 
> and the film had a ton of dust bunnies and hairs from poor handling at 
> the film lab. I was just going to scrap these shots Since then I have 
> learned a lot about noise control and image processing in general so I 
> decided just a few days ago to complete the processing started a year 
> ago.
>
> The image is a mosaic of 2 120- E200 pushed 1 stop, scanned at 4000 
> dpi on a PrintScan 120. All processing was done in Photoshop CS and 
> passed through the demo version of  Noise Ninja for noise reduction.
>
> Just a side note, I think Noise Ninja works much better that Neat 
> Image which I have been using for about a year.
>
> Here's the image. 
> http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=728&UserID=67
>
> comment welcome
>
>
> John Laborde
>
>
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