Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Bode's nebulae  ·  M 81  ·  NGC 3031
Looking for contrast : M81 in fake Ha treatment !, Ewam
Looking for contrast : M81 in fake Ha treatment !
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Looking for contrast : M81 in fake Ha treatment !

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I was getting frustrated with the color balance on my latest M81 work : while playing with selective colors in Ps, the more I gained contrast and details the more the color balance seemed all wrong.

Then mister Coles's Ha version poped-up ! Eureka : "forget colors, I will start all over with broadband only subs and applied a "from B&W to Ha" action".

Here is the result : no pretty colors but definitely more to see!

> FINAL E : far from the "natural yet crunchy" aspect I was looking for, this last attempt (from the "fake Ha session) is all I could do. Too much processing leaves "naturalness" far behind I'm afraid ! Oh well, at least it's sort of blue (or is it blue green ? ;-)

> FINAL D : less saturation on the star field, more O-III layered in, little tweaking with artefacts... Next step will come out of Ha session and a dry night to get more detail (my sky is often very humid)

VERSION C : used 23 x 60 subs for background star color, added spikes, added 3 subs in O-III of 315 sec each @ 3200iso, using only 5% of relevant parts (faint extensions and softening the noise level)

Instead of O-III, UHC would have been more efficient, ... one learns slowly I suppose.

TECH SPEC :

23 x 60sec ;

12 x 90 sec ;

3 x 150 sec ; all set @ 1600iso ;

3 x 315 sec O-III @ 3200iso ;

Depth of field : dimmer than mag.18

The O-III here didn't seem to add more, maybe faint details on the outskirt - next version with extra O-III maybe ?

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Looking for contrast : M81 in fake Ha treatment !, Ewam