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

[steve banbury <banburys@sonic.net>]

Hi John---Rho Ophiuchus has been a holy grail to me for 3 years now.  
I've tried and tried unsuccessfully to capture the beauty of this
region.  Your results are nothing short of fabulous!  Maybe Noise Ninja 
can help me too.  Nice to see a stunning film shot like this!

Best wishes--Steve

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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