Re: [APML] Redo- Sagittarius - M8 to M17

[Alan Voetsch <alanv12952@yahoo.com>]

Hey Vicent,

--- Vicent Peris <vicentperis@ya.com> wrote:
> Before:
>  http://pteam.pleiades-astrophoto.com/Vicent/B145_before.jpg
> 
> After:
> http://pteam.pleiades-astrophoto.com/Vicent/B145_after.jpg
> 
> The second image looks too much fuzzy??

It is grainy, and soft at the same time. 

> And one simpler example. In June, I was in Canary islands, at
> the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory. At 2300 meters high,
> the Milky Way Center was impressive, with an incredible
> contrast, with a lot of dark lanes running over it. The first
> impression I had was that it looked **exactly** like an image
> processed only with large scale techniques! In fact, my eye
> wasn't able to view small features on the Milky Way.
> 
> So, what's more natural??? The crispy images you like, or the
> fuzzy images generated with large scale processing??? I think
> many of those basic topics for the beginner astrophotographer
> are today no so clear, at least for me, after 6 years of hard
> work...

There's another subject I'd like to ask about. Do images prcoessed
mostly in PS look 'weird' to the folks who like to use PI LE? That
would tell me a lot. What would tell me the most though is if anyone
can say for sure if what I see I is processing artifact, or artistic
interpretation? 

Alan

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