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Overheard an astrophotography vet say 'stop fighting the histogram' and it clicked
I was at a local star party near Flagstaff last weekend and one of the old-timers was explaining why my Andromeda shots looked so blown out. He said I was cranking exposure time instead of watching where my peak landed on the histogram. Took me about 20 minutes to re-learn how to use my camera's live view, but my next 30-second frame had way more detail in the core. Has anyone else had a 'wait, that's how it works' moment with something simple like that?
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thead445d ago
Yeah, dialing back exposure to protect the core was a huge game changer for me too, once I stopped trying to just max out every sub. It felt wrong at first to get a "dark" frame, but the stacked result was way cleaner.
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