Horsehead

[reef ravine]

200 X 150s
130HNT x QHY268C

[sinful ferry]

👨‍🍳

At least for my taste

[storm marsh]

Very nice overall, but I do notice a quite intense red cast in the immediate region of the horsehead. Idk if it's a result of masking or gradients but just something that I thought could potentially be fixed.

Great dust color tho!

[reef ravine]

Thanks! So, in playing around, I think this is from inadequate background neutralization preceding a very aggressive stretch.

My first go arounds are typically a little funky. I do like how the red background value contributed to the dust color so I may run some protection masks on the dust to prevent the red from being white balanced out.

[reef ravine]

At least it is a smiling chef! To be transparent with you, the only thing I did to this was stretch the dog out of it. The hyperbolic stretch was even done with no increase in local intensity.

I think the fried look is slightly intrinsic to the Sharpstar HNT when it is stretched hard.

[sinful ferry]

I don’t mean to say that it’s not a good image, I mean I could only dream of getting that much SNR!

[reef ravine]

All good! I do appreciate the comment. There are some things I have learned to do to try and manage this scopes quirks. I was mainly elaborating because I did not know much about how different this scope would be to process before I got it. I hope that I’m leaving some breadcrumbs so others might know what to expect!

[reef ravine]

Slightly different approach in the processing on this one.

[sinful ferry]

Wow! Personally I like this version more, but I am by means an expert!

[storm marsh]

Dust is a bit yellow and the reds have been reduced a little too much imo

Maybe pixelmath 30% of the new process with 70% of the original.

Kind of a blend

[reef ravine]

Good idea! Here's a 50/50 blend. I kind of like this.

[storm marsh]

Looking nice!

[reef ravine]

Thanks a bunch!

[late flower]

that hit the mark