Suggestions (or directions)

Edward Lubat

Hi Adam - not sure if either of these is currently available somewhere.  If so, please direct me; if not, consider them suggestions :)

1. Do you maintain an email list so that subscribers can be notified of new videos in the areas they are subscribed to (obviously to prevent having to keep checking)?

2. Although I know you don't typically shoot OSC, for those of us that do (I use a ZWO ASI071Pro), do you have or would you consider doing a video on the merits of creating a synthetic luminance, and if it does have merit, how you would construct a workflow to process this in PI (which seems to have some processes that can be directed at "lightness" via a check box, which might obviate the need for synthetic luminance processing).

BTW, I have learned so much from Fundamentals and Horizons....thanks

Ed

BlockHead

Hi Edward,

1. I guess that is what this forum was for. I always announce on here when I release something I also always post it on the members' page (the first page you see when you log in) and finally I post on the AdamBlockStudios Facebook page. You might be able to have the forum send you e-mails? (I am not certain...I would need to check that). 

2. I think this requires a longer answer- but basically I would say a synthetic luminance is helpful when you want to travel a different path than is possible on the combined or individual color channels. Take deconvolution, for example- you would definitely want to perform this on a properly made synthetic luminance. You would also want to have a synthetic luminance if you were blending something together in either the color data- or luminance image- but not both. HDRMT, as another example, you would only want to perform on a luminance image- not on a color image, because it will make things lose saturation (go white).  But basically it depends on the path of processes that are followed to reach a particular place.

I suspect that isn't a very satisfying answer... so I will tuck this suggestion away. 

One thing that does interest me... more immediately, is filling big obvious holes in Fundamentals. I would like to take care of those... and then concentrate on Horizons. 

-the Blockhead

Edward Lubat

Thanks for the reply.

As for the synthetic luminance question, you are very perceptive...not very satisfying.....but no fault of yours.  I will patiently await a future video (I'm sure you have great sources of data, but if you ever need any OSC data for such a video let me know).  In the meantime, I will start playing around with it on my own, starting with deconvolution, and see how it goes.

Thanks again.

Ed