Roland

An excellent post with discussions of color interpretations.

Everyone can and should read your techniques here as there is much to learn from this as a tutorial for both observing, color interpretation, and sketching. Also great input by others here too.

Although I know many use computer software today, I tend to agree with you about the traditional methods of hand sketching and rendering color. It is amazing how you are using the video to see through. I was entertained to see Rony sugggest making several duplicate sketches in various RGB then merging them. Man, that would be an exercise!

[For your serious technical artists eyes only]

It conjurs up the photo technique of HDR photography- The camera takes three exposures of varying over-under-and one proper exposed, then merges all three in a software program. It has become popular with daylight landscape photographers to produce surreal and stunning images with details in the shadows and highlights that could not otherwise be attained in the old single exposure method; now some camera brands are building it as an automatic option into the camera. Have you or others heard of this? I suppose that is another topic for another forum. Or could this apply to astro imaging too?

I always enjoy your posts with the excellent texts on explaining your techniques.

Thanks again for posting this one,

Mark