I hope everyone had a great weekend. Some good friends and I discovered one of Denver’s hidden gems, the Chamberlin Observatory. Once a month, they open up this historic place and invite everyone to explore the heavens. We were able to see the ice cap on Mars through a telescope built in the late 1800s. I’d say that’s pretty cool for a Saturday night. Living by the mantra I have preached here many times, I made sure to take my camera with me. Needless to say, I’m glad I did.
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Processing Notes:
Capture – 9 images @ 1ev
Lightroom 3- Raw conversion to .jpgs (applied camera/lens profiles and sharpened)
Photomatix HDR – Tonemapping
Photoshop – Blend HDR + 3 anchor images
Photoshop – MOD layer to remove unwanted artifacts
Nik Define 2.0 – Noise reduction
Photoshop – Selective de-saturation (yellow)
Nik CEP 4 – Pro Contrast
Nik CEP 4 -Selective Tonal Contrast
Photoshop – Several light balancing curves adjustments
Photoshop – Selective Gaussian blur to smooth unwanted artifacts
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