First of all thanks a lot for all your nice comments on "Backlit" as well as you warm welcome.

What thrills me most when I look at photographs of nebulae is the lighting. This is maybe the same reason why I love cloud scapes too. Only with nebulae it`s much more complex because there are multiple lightsources involved and as we all know nebulae can emit light too. And then there`s this huge space...

As I am perfectly aware that I have neither the scientific background nor the equipment
to create a "real" model of a nebula I rather play with the fact that our minds like illusions and beauty.

As long as a picture does not obviously hurt physical laws (e.g. moon`s shading on the wrong side) , meets what we would expect of a picture and surprises us at the same time with something we wouldn`t expect, we are prone to give in to that illusion.

Enough talk!

I hope you enjoy my new upload!


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Hi Dick, like clouds, nebulae come in assorted shapes and sizes especially the reflections, dark and emission type--IMHO yours are fairly accurate for the reflections and dark nebulae type.  Your starfield is right on too, great depth, magnitude, etc.  Overall, an outstanding, beautiful picture--without artistic presentation, space would be rather boring (the eyes see only an extremely small part of the frequency spectrum without aids).

I certainly agree with you that space is big, really big and getting bigger by the second (the expansion of space is the only "thing" that can "continuously" exceed the speed of light and as been doing just since the big bang--Jan

"thing and continuously" are qualifiers--

Wow fantatsic

 

Hopefully it won't be long before i can create something like that.

Wondeful

 

Simon

Hey there, Eonite,

Ooooh, beautiful! Star field is good, nebula great, colors excellent.

Hi!
Beautiful picture!!! I love your work!!! WOW!!!

I have just 2 words: OUTSTANDING WORK!!!

beautiful work man, encore...encore...

Just one thing, try this, remove the stars in the darker parts of the nebula. It should add a thickness effect to it.


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THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR GREAT RESPONSE! I`m happy to feel that things get across to you.

To Jan: Sounds like you know a lot about space (much more than I do). So feel free to correct me when you feel that I missed something. But my aim is not to create astronomical art.

To Ravindra: You are right with the stars. At least for the very small ones which are located behind  the nebula. I didn`t give it enough importance when I worked on the picture. But now that you tell me I can see it.
About the bigger stars located in front of the nebula I`m not so sure. I have seen lot`s of
nebulae captures with stars shining brightly in front of the dark parts. But I will give it a try anyway. Thanks!

Dick

Here I have a version with the stars removed in the most prominent dark parts of the nebula.
I did separate renders and then removed the stars manually from the layers.
I really have to go into this topic more deeply. Why are there no stars visible? As I understand
it so far is that:
1) Dark nebulae are quite dense so the stars behind cannot be seen.
2) The bright parts of a nebula add to the overall light and so stars which would not be "seen"
are visible now.

Am I right on that?

Dick

ehmm....


Just Great Man!

You also have to take into account the fact that really bright areas will 'wash out' dimmer stars nearby so that you can't see them. Also do you see where the clouds are backlit? there should be stars peaking out behind them, not in front of them, or they would be lit from the front

Ok enough criticism...have to agree with them - this is really beautiful!! fantastic colors! love it!! btw did you make the nebula with cloud photos or just emulate clouds?