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TIL a guy at the star party told me my Andromeda shots were too blue
He said to check the white balance in my camera's custom settings, so I tried it on the Orion Nebula last night and wow, what a difference. Anyone else have a simple tip that fixed a big issue in their astro photos?
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claire_grant341mo ago
Yeah, the white balance thing is huge... my first few tries at the Milky Way had this awful orange tint from light pollution. Setting a custom Kelvin temp around 3800-4000k in my camera fixed it, made the sky look black and the stars actually white.
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the_max1mo ago
Always figured white balance was for portraits and product shots. That Orion Nebula tip proved me wrong pretty fast. Makes the whole editing process way less of a fight.
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bennett.harper1mo ago
Honestly though, is it that big of a deal? I just shoot in RAW and fix the color later in Lightroom. It takes like two seconds to slide the temp slider. All this talk about setting exact Kelvin numbers in the field seems like overkill to me. If the raw data is there, you can make it look right later without the fuss.
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