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

["Vicent Peris" <vicentperis@ya.com>]

At 09:32 24/09/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>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. 


Hi Alan,

No, I can assure that image is not grainy! What you see as grain
are thousands of stars. Think that the image has been reduced 
from 3600 to 900 pixels wide! It looks soft? Well, the object 
is "as-is"... I cannot create small scale features where there 
are only large scale features...

The same occurs with Carlos Milovic's images, specially with the
first one. It's not grain, it's a bunch of stars.


>> 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


That's not the question, I think. The correct one is if you can 
do those things in PS... I can't, for sure. Simply, PS has very 
basic tools. And I can assure that my images have a minimum 
of processsing arctifacts, I'm very meticulous on this matter.

Best,
Vicent.
 

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