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

["Richard Crisp" <rdcrisp@earthlink.net>]

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From: "John Laborde" <jlaborde@ix.netcom.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:04 AM
Subject: [APML] Back to a film image-Rho Ophiuchus


> 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.

have you tried SGBNR, John?


>
> Here's the image. 
> http://aisig.sdaa.org/astroblogDetail.asp?imgID=728&UserID=67

that came out nice!

rdc


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