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Got told my nebula shots were too blue and it actually made me rethink everything
A guy at the Denver Astronomical Society meetup last month looked at my Orion Nebula photo and said "you know that's not what it actually looks like, right?" I was pretty defensive at first because I thought the blue was dramatic and cool. But then I went back and reprocessed the data with more realistic color balance and honestly the natural hydrogen-alpha reds look way better. Has anyone else had to totally redo their editing process after one comment from someone older in the hobby?
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robin8961h ago
That comment stings at first but it's usually a gift in disguise. The whole "false color vs true color" debate in astrophotography is really tricky. Some people go way overboard with the blues and it looks like a neon sign instead of space. Your new processing with the hydrogen-alpha reds showing through is probably much closer to what you'd actually see through a big dob. Glad you gave it another shot.
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