It’s 8:30 AM here in San Jose and the session is getting started. Last night was very good. We saw New Mexico Sky’s set-up in Western Australia, and actually did see an image taken by the 24″ RCOS in New Mexico. Good conversations, much information shared, a good time had by all.

8:30 AM — Ken Crawford Depth of Field Processing. Recommends a Wacom tablet. Tools in Photoshop: Smart Sharpen, high pass, and shadow / highlight. Overdo the processing a bit, then back off when you blend the processed layer. Soft light / screen process looks interesting. Jay GaBany showed its use last year, but this presentation makes it more understandable. He is really demonstrating magic with Photoshop.

…Break…

Bought a CFW-10, an OIII filter, and an SII filter over the break. Look for a CFW-8 on Astromart soon.

10:30 AM — Jay GaBany Color Filtering. Does not bin his color exposures, and uses the color exposures combined to make a synthetic luminance. Many techniques, very interesting image enhancement. Details in the image really come out. Jay concluded with an amazing shot of NGC 891.

11:00 AM — Door prize time! Very nice prizes, many worth hundreds of dollars. Art won a filter!

And we are done. Great conference!