About the Image(s)

This is taking inspiration from last month's Space shot. I had already done some work on a space photo using macro work in lockdown, of soap bubbles. I had put three together on a black background but not been happy as there were large area of fuzzy edges and there was still too big a space in the centre. I also had my 'corona' construct made with step and repeat technique of an ogre statue, and then Lynne showed she had used marbles. Again I had a shot of marbles in a wine glass so I extracted a part of that and moved it to the central area, Each time I copy/pasted the coronas I changed the blend mode and altered the hue. I also darkened them, changed their placement so they were covered by the main, large planets. I've had to play around a lot with Nik on the final image to make them look as if they belong. I used 'dark contrasts' and then a slight vignette and last of all, I converted to mono and then tweaked the colour sliders to alter the contrast overall. A lot of fiddling but I actually like the end result. So do you think it works?