Recently, haven't been out doing much of anything to speak of. However, I have had the urge to go back to a couple of my favorite photo's and rework them again from scratch.
The first is a lightning shot I took in Oct. 2016 and while there was nothing wrong with the original post production, it was at it's native 6000x4000 resolution ( a 3:2 ratio ) and most stuff is better suited at a 16:9 or 16:10 ratio... with 1080 being at 1920x1080 resolution. In fact, I was wanting to use it as a backdrop for my Just Chatting streams I occasionally do on Twitch and since the subject of those often include talk about the local weather with me sharing radar and other weather related stuff... a lightning pic seemed appropriate. So I went back, repeated my post processing with the goal of going with a 1080 sized shot, tacked on a copyright and walla... lol
Then there was a shot of the Orion Nebula I did earlier that year in Feb. that has always been a favorite but when I first did the post processing... I couldn't keep a greenish tinge out of and still keep the nebula showing up well. In fact, the test shots I did the previous evening to find out the best amount of time for the exposures to keep the star trails to a minimum, were a little off also.
Anyway the reason for the test shots the previous night... the final was a stacked image that created using around 20 shots ( times 4 since they also contain what's called bias, dark, flat and flatdark shots to help with image quality as well as increase the combined light of the original pics that are used in the final composite ). Then you use a program that combines the originals as well as uses the other shots to get rid of sensor noise and other aberrations. Then you do your final post processing after that step of combining everything together. Again, I started with the original combined shot, zoomed into what I wanted then scaled it back up to the full resolution ( ie 6000x4000 )... and once I redid the post processing... I again made a 1080 sized shot that I could share on the web. The star trails are almost unavoidable unless you have an expensive motorized stand that can track accurately, these were around 3/4 of a second shots and the zooming in to the amount I wanted, exaggerated them more than what you'd have seen if I had used the original full shot, but the nebula would have been tiny in that.
I've got another stacked shot of the Orion Nebula that I took later on in Dec. of that year that the detail came out good on... but it was overly purple-ish that time instead of the greenish hue this one had... I may rework that later.
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