Advice on processing M42

[Alec]

Can anyone advise how i can stop the core looking burnt out. 

[+Graham]

The only way is to take another set of images at a fast shutter speed say 10 seconds or less.

Process these and then crop the centre out, you then blend the cropped image onto this image using a mask in Photoshop. 

Edited January 27, 2018 by Graham

[Alec]

12 minutes ago, Graham said:

The only way is to take another set of images at a fast shutter speed say 10 seconds or less.

Process these and then crop the centre out, you then blend the cropped image onto this image using a mask in Photoshop. 

Thx Graham will try that next time

[+Graham]

No worries.

Plenty of tuts on utube

[Bottletopburly]

could try masking that area off during processing to see if it makes a difference on that set

[+Ibbo]

try one layer with only a bit of a stretch and layer it on top of the other one and use a layer mask to rub out what come through

 

[philjay]

Layers using different exposure time subs, called compositing in the old days but basically start with your long exposure with the core blown out as your background then slap on top of that a layer copied from a shorter exposure image of the core. Blend as Steve says then flatten layers. Then do the same again but with an image taken with even shorter exposures so eventually you end up rebuilding the core from shorter exposure images.

There loads of guides on the interweb