The Camel Nebula

Hi everyone,

Firstly, thanks for all the help after I uploaded my last piece!

After getting everyone’s feedback on my first try, thinking more about what I wanted to achieve (keeping feedback in mind) and focussing on building up more depth and contrast (and better lighting), this is what I came up with.

It’s about 8 – 10 hours work (I think, not really timing). I started off by brushing in the base shape, adding a texture and colour to it, then using sxc stock photos to build in the different parts of the nebula. Finally I added in the small stars and some larger ones of varying degrees and applied levels and colour balanced everything.

Feedback would really really be appreciated in any aspect, how could I have improved it, what did I do wrong right etc.

Thanks very much in advance!

David