in this video i'm going to take a look at your astro photos i reached out to the astro backyard facebook community to submit their latest astro images final completed images that i could review look at and tell you if i have any pointers some image processing tips for you some amazing images came through and i've had a chance to look at them now so let's go through those together and hopefully you can learn a thing or two this video is sponsored by one dream an awesome educational video subscription service i'll get to that in a little bit first one we have here by sven we've got the heart and soul nebula and the double cluster nearby now if if any of you have tried to take a shot like this where you're capturing two different types of targets in the same shot it's actually a lot more difficult than you would anticipate because the way you would process a nebula in a star cluster are quite different so one of the biggest issues when you're dealing with a shot like this shooting a wide field frame like that if you don't have proper flat frame calibration it's really hard to deal with those gradients and then vignetting this seems to be really flattened out nicely there's not a whole lot i have to critique about this image if anything i think a lot of people would prefer maybe even smaller reduced stars around the heart and soul nebula to make that more punchy and dramatic but because that star cluster is in there too i think it's just a perfect balance very natural looking the colors look great and and everything so i don't have a whole lot i would i would tweak with this image next up we have the pac-man nebula by fiona and ashley what are your thoughts just looking at this image as a whole i like the framing um first of all that's like the thing that stands out i like the diffraction spikes on the stars they're nice yeah yeah the color of the nebula is nice too a good balance between that and the dark sky i agree i love the dis diffraction spikes so this looks like it was taken on a newtonian reflector it's really beautiful as ashley said it's it's perfectly framed the star colors are just beautiful it has kind of a soft look but i think because these stars are very intentionally showcased in this image it's not like she was trying to just hide those stars and dim them back to get that punchy nebula i think it's a really well-balanced image with the pac-man and the beautiful star surrounding it again this is an image i i would feel very guilty of adjusting maybe if anything i'm i'm a little tempted to boost the saturation just just to see what happens there so just an adobe camera raw on its most simplest level here moving the saturation and the vibrance it's going to bring those star colors with it but some people like this really dramatic looking someone called it barbie makeup pink i i now it's all i see but i really do like that vibrant kind of magenta the clarity is just kind of a quick way to kind of cheat and get some
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