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25 Years On
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This week saw the 25th Anniversary of the first fight into space of the Space Shuttle - the STS-1 mission. NASA has made quite a big thing of it on their site but didn’t find time to restore and enhance their photo archives of it. So, here courtesy of some extensive Photoshop & Noise Ninja repair work is the launch of STS-1, Columbia.

Credit: NASA/JPL

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.scionlord
04/17/06 9:02 PM GMT
Nice work phil.
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::philcUK
04/17/06 9:10 PM GMT
if you want to see the original NASA image before the photoshop and noise ninja treatment, you can find it here.
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::xyccoc
04/17/06 9:10 PM GMT
excellent work here Phil.. after seeing the original, you can see just how much work went into this..

Dj
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.ted3020
04/17/06 9:33 PM GMT
Great work. You did an amazing job cleaning the picture.
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.JayC242
04/17/06 9:51 PM GMT
Outstanding!
I have had this image previously from Nasa but not in this resolution -and certainly not looking this good!
Awesome job with a stunning capture!
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::ederyunai
04/17/06 9:56 PM GMT
Surprising work...a brilliant result ...congratulations
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::kimcande
04/17/06 11:29 PM GMT
Impressive and without any noise. You did a wonderful job!!
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.ekowalska
04/18/06 9:33 AM GMT
Incredible work you have done. The result is stunning. That is why you scored very high in the voting booth my friend. Pin sharp capture and no noise.
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.MissTish
04/18/06 11:41 AM GMT
great job cleaning this up
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::Paul_Gerritsen
04/18/06 5:11 PM GMT
So impressive!
Thanks,
Paul
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.highglosshighs
04/19/06 10:49 AM GMT
Not adding anything new here, but I just wanted to join the people before me and say wow! Looking at it I almost feel like I'm watching it happen right in front of me.
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.Light
04/25/06 9:59 AM GMT
Wow thats just amazing, how long it take you, lol?
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&KEIFER
04/28/06 11:31 AM GMT
I think =Piner must eat these for breakfast

great job ..

so .. you're a Noise Ninja convert now? .. I've used Neat Image and KODAK's digital GEM
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sylvia_says
05/16/06 6:59 PM GMT
Your hard work absolutely shows in this picture.
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chadoffl
07/09/06 9:41 PM GMT
Amazing work! Thanks for the picture.
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-Chad
treski
11/21/07 7:49 PM GMT
First of all, I think it's a brilliant picture, and thanks to you, it's one of my favourites.

However, I came across a printed copy and it has a lot more warm yellow, orange and red tones in the smoke and thrust flames. Compared to my notebook, that is.

I wonder if it's my monitor, or someone edited the printed copy. Would you, Phil, like comment on this? Anyone?
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&philcUK
11/21/07 7:58 PM GMT
the original archive image is very degraded but not overly dissimilar in colour and hues which would lead me to conclude the printed image you have seen had its colour or saturation artificially enhanced.
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.Jhihmoac
10/05/23 7:38 AM GMT
So long ago... Thanks for sharing...
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