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Nov 3, 2015 15:04:45   #
Rosanna Loc: Montana
 
nikonshooter wrote:
From what I can see....it looks just fine. I agree with all of the posters that shooting raw is a must.

I look at it this way. It is like cooking a cake. If you shoot anything but RAW, once the cake is out of the oven...it is what it is., You can't add or subtract ingredients. When shooting RAW...that is NOT the case, if you think your cake is missing important ingredients.....you can make all kinds of ingredient changes after the fact.

When shooting JPEGs, TIFF's, your camera essentially makes all of the critical in-camera decisions with your help. With RAW, you can alter most of those in-camera decisions in post processing. The one big exception is FOCUS.....and I have yet to find one Focus software program that does any better than "unsharp mask" which is very limiting. If the image is out of focus - in the name of storage - I delete it and "kick the camera" :)

Just my two cents!
From what I can see....it looks just fine. I agr... (show quote)



Hello Nikonshooter, as stated above since I didn't state it in my original post, I shoot in nothing but RAW.

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Nov 3, 2015 15:05:34   #
Rosanna Loc: Montana
 
JimH123 wrote:
I searched and found that I had a somewhat out of focus image of the Hercules Cluster with a nearby blown out Jupiter. This is the first image.

The second image has the benefit of using Star Tools. The stars are made more round and are shrunk. Special attention to Jupiter since it was so blown out. It has also been stretched to show the stars better.


Wow, I'm impressed!

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