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52 Weeks: 2024 Edition: Week 31: Over Processed
Got a "clear" (as in no clouds, but plenty of haze/poor visibility thanks to our lovely inversion in Salt Lake City) night last night, decided to pack up my gear and drive up to the top of a canyon near my house. Still a bortle 6/7 zone so lots of light pollution that's made worse thanks to the snow on the ground and the haze in the air this time of year. Decided to go for the "layup" in terms of night sky targets, M42, since the skies weren't great and I probably wouldn't have been able to image much else. Just wanted more practice setting up, imaging, dithering, and breaking down this new gear. I think I've nailed the polar alignment process with sharpcap, guiding has been going well (usually around 1 arc-sec total RMS), dithering is something I need to figure out how to automate better though.
Acquisition details:
Shot with Astrotech AT65EDQ and Nikon D7000 (full spectrum mod with UV/IR Cut filter)
Orion Sirius EQ-G mount with Rowan Belt Mod and ADM Losmandy saddle
Orion 50mm mini guide scope and ToupTek guide cam, polar aligned with Sharpcap, guiding and dithering with PHD2
36 x 5 minute exposures at ISO 800
25 x 45 second exposures at ISO 800
100 x bias frames, 41 x flat frames
Editing steps:
created master bias, corrected flat frames with master bias and then created master flat, then calibrated light frames with master bias and master flat in PixInsight
cosmetic correction to remove hot pixels in PI
BatchDebayer to debayer all light frames
StarAlignment for image registration, then stacking (5 minute exposures separate from 45 second exposures), then drizzle integration
Dynamic Crop to crop off edges
Extract luminence channel, then separate RGB channels, LinearFit RGB channels to luminence channel and then channel combination to combine RGB channels
Dynamic Background Extraction to remove gradient
Color calibration with white and dark reference points
Noise reduction with MultiScaleLinearTransform
Screen Transfer Function for the 5 minute exposure stack, masked stretch for the 45 second exposure stack
Open stacks in Photoshop, align as layers, then mask in the 45 second exposure stack for the core of the nebula.
Flatten image and do a smart sharpen
Select brighter stars with astro actions tool, then expand selection several pixels, feather by half as many pixels.
Minimum filter to reduce star size
Curves and levels to add contrast
Open in lightroom so I can resize and export with watermark for web upload
It's pretty overprocessed, the stacking didn't remove some artifacts like the geosynch satellite trails, there was also some horizontal banding that I think was caused by cars driving by illuminating the haze in the air. Not an overly great edit, but it was more about getting more practice with the equipment and just trying this target with this scope for the first time.
When I was first starting out with 35mm photography many years ago, I took some classes through adult education at a local college. During one class, we had to shoot portraits and our teacher brought in models for us. This young lady was the model assigned to me. She reminded me of one of my great-niece's.
Nothing at all to do with the previous series of images of the Green River Launch Complex, but it was obviously on my mind when I titled this fanciful image. This is actually a huge blimp hanger at the abandoned Marine Corps Air Station in Tustin, CA. A photo of the original pre processing image is below.
This is a local trout stream. I thought the sky, clouds, and water would be fun to capture in Infrared as the sun was so bright.
I thought the OMD had given up the ghost when I couldn't get the Aperture Priority to work nor the Shutter Priority. I went to Manual and couldn't get anything to work either.
Finally I was able to set the Bracket Feature and do this.
A bit over done, but it was fun anyway.
I need to go back with a walking stick. Those tumbled rocks are a bit precarious!
This started out as a picture of our apple tree in bloom. I used some blur layers, a twist layer and a mosaic layer to make it look like this. Hope you have a wonderful day! HSS!
The theme for week 31 is over-processed. I love over-processed photos if they add something. I am usually found in Sliders Sunday adding to the collective madness. I also started the HDR and Photoshop group.
This cargo ship was photographed as we went by at 35kts, lucky it was calm.
We always seem to see a lot of these old VW Bugs when in Mexico. We found this one in San Miguel de Allende this past summer. This is obviously over-processed a bit in honor of Sliders Sunday. HSS!
Our Daily Challenge - Smoke & Mirrors
192:365
Overprocessed to hell and gone to try and save it which is smoke and mirrors in itself.
As Clare would say . . . . . move along, nothing here to see.
Es Pontà s" means "The Big Bridge" in mallorquÃ, the local language. It's easy to understand why this huge rock has this name...
I had this photo in mind since a long time ago, but it has been hard to take it. I waited several months until the sunrise must be directly visible over the sea (and not behind the coast land). I also waited for a pre-strom or post-storm sky and finally I woke up at 4 am and drove more than 1 hour to be at the right place at the right time.
This is my first test on image blending. I personally hate overprocessed HDR pictures, so I have tried to keep the original ambience and mood of light that I get from this site that day. I hope you like the result. Any comment or advice to improve will be greatly appreciated! :)
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © Óscar López. All rights reserved
Saw some pictures of Firefall from other folks taken on Feb 21st and they all had intense red colors at the fall. I thought that wasn't what I saw as the intensity of the sunlight wasn't there because of the presence of the clouds. So I gave it a try to overprocess my Firefall image.
Smile on Saturday theme: Over processed clouds 😄
Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊
Tulips in the garden. Processed with paint.net
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
Overprocessed for Slider Sunday
Fun with lots of gradients in Lightroom
Take one fisheye shot of the Millennium bridge
Convert to monochrome
darken sky and add red tint to sky
vignette
burn the apocalyptic bits at 740 centigrate or just increase exposure and brightness with a tint of orange
slide the shadows right down to create a silhouette
Out for a drive I spotted this old Wood Grain Storage Bin, you don't see to many of these any more and the ones you do see generaly aren't used for their original use.
Slid this one a bit trying to get a bit of an "Vintage" look.
For - Happy Slider Sunday - HSS!
An attempt at over-processing a picture - on purpose.
I dug deep into the archives for a shot of a dahlia that I took in the spring and then did way too much with it to get this. HSS!
Luxembourg - November 2022
a place that has already been photographed a lot, but nevertheless very photogenic.
The shutter speed is not that long to avoid a totally flat water, I wanted some motion.
Photo taken with a polarizer to remove water's reflection on the rocks and also some reflection on the leaves in the trees, which enhances the saturation 'naturally' without an overprocessed image needed afterwards of these yellow/orange tones.
In the early morning there was mist, I had arrived very early to be disturbed by no one, which was the case for 1-2 hours! enough to take advantage of the place and also refine the different compositions.
I hope you enjoy
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Reaching into the archives...a shot from our cruise in October - as we were leaving Portland, ME, there was a lovely lighthouse. My shots of it were pretty boring, so here's one all jazzed up for Slider Sunday. HSS!
This started as a glorious but cliche sunset photo from a cruise that Mister and I just got back from....I don't remember everything I did to it in Photoshop but I really like the result. Hope you have a wonderful day. HSS!
SLIDER SATURDAY 7/52
There are times that I find extensive post processing evokes a very different feel or mood from an image and sometimes I like the result.
Being more of a purist with photography, I seldom post these overprocessed images but I decided for 2012, I would post those images on what I have termed "Slider Saturday". These will be images that I have extensively moved the sliders in post processing.
Gegen den Wind ankämpfend
The theme of group "Smile on Saturday! :-)", on Saturday July 29, is "OVER-PROCESSED PORTRAIT". For this challenge you have to take a picture of a person (no animals, plants or objects!) AND you have to edit your photo as much as possible... exaggerated editing is a must.
I believe I did meet the requirement by overprocessing the portrait. ;-)
A photo of a sculpture with a photo of some yarrow or some other yellow-y goodness. Hope you have a wonderful day. HSS!
Luxembourg - November 2022
a place that has already been photographed a lot, but nevertheless very photogenic. The composition is basically quite simple, here I wanted to add a little touch by adding the stones in the foreground. I tried also to be close to those rocks in order to have the waterfall as the bridge higher than me.
The shutter speed is not that long to avoid a totally flat water, I wanted some motion.
Photo taken with a polarizer to remove water's reflection on the rocks and also some reflection on the leaves in the trees, which enhances the saturation 'naturally' without an overprocessed image needed afterwards of these yellow/orange tones.
Focus stack on the foreground to have those sharp also as well as the water fall.
In the early morning there was mist, I had arrived very early to be disturbed by no one, which was the case for 1-2 hours! enough to take advantage of the place and also refine the different compositions.
I hope you enjoy
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