My whole week of planned Milky Way shots got wiped by a wildfire haze.

The smoke from the Cedar Creek fire rolled into our valley and turned the sky into a flat orange wall for six nights straight. Anyone else in the Pacific Northwest dealing with this and have tips for shooting through haze?

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uma_lopez2mo ago

My buddy in Sisters had the same problem last August. He tried a 720nm infrared filter on his old DSLR. Got these crazy, dark skies in the shots but the trees turned bright white. Looked like a ghost forest. He said it was the only way to salvage a week of ruined plans.

sanchez.mia2mo ago

Did he ever try a lower wavelength filter, like 590nm, to get more natural looking foliage?

mila_mitchell1mo ago

Actually, @sanchez.mia, 590nm is a higher wavelength than what you'd use for natural foliage. You'd want something lower, like a 550nm or 590nm is for more color swap effects. The 720nm Uma mentioned is deep infrared, that's why everything goes wild.