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Nick, I would like to see what you did to the sky to bring out the Milky Way.
I don't remember exactly what I did so I just did a quick re-process while taking screen shots.
RAW Image:
![Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.40.50 AM.png Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.40.50 AM.png](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/4/4486-a541b40e51dc5409b85cc512710cf030.jpg)
Bumped the exposure up a bit
![Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.41.03 AM.png Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.41.03 AM.png](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/4/4487-6686713b7faaf728d1043f68d2174aee.jpg)
Applied the Detail Extractor filter from the Nik Color Efex Pro software (within Aperture)
![Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.41.36 AM.png Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.41.36 AM.png](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/4/4488-a2ea6a8a9bdff06f9d58edf18c2ca589.jpg)
Added negative control points so that the major extraction was only occuring on the milky way itself. All the little dots you see in the photo below are a negative control point.
![Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.42.17 AM.png Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.42.17 AM.png](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/4/4489-8305f14a7a963680af2f5b5ecb8e4ef9.jpg)
Reduced noise in Dfine 2.0
![Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.43.10 AM.png Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.43.10 AM.png](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/4/4491-8ebd41bfa072b285500d793636970bcf.jpg)
A bit of sharpening...
![Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.43.50 AM.png Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.43.50 AM.png](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/4/4492-a06968ffceb6cb4562b316ee53d1e925.jpg)
Brushed in some saturation... (the screen shot didn't capture the brush)
![Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.44.17 AM.png Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.44.17 AM.png](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/4/4493-67bcc35d52401df07c55dc82e87d5b33.jpg)
Cooled it down a bit. I should have done this first. But you get the point...
![Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.44.49 AM.png Screen Shot 2012-08-16 at 7.44.49 AM.png](https://backcountrypost.com/data/attachments/4/4494-fe0d82a7f199fae56a0d434f0d9c5f58.jpg)