I am a 19 year old young man and I have been doing astrophotography for the last 3-4 years. I do from deep space, lunar and wide field.
This post is regarding the last topic. And I am always looking for advice and help to improve my techniques and my photos in general.
Sorry for making this a bit long, but I wanted to put all the relevant information. Since maybe there may be more people in my position and this could help them.
I've been looking at my latest Milky Way photos I've taken, and there's something that has always bothered me a little. It is the color I get with respect to the Milky Way against the sky. My question is whether this comes from taking the photos, more from the processing, or both.
(You can see in my profile that my equipment is as simple as a Nikon D3300 with lenses, and a StarAdventurer 2i.
Regarding taking photos, it is also somewhat complicated. I travel 2 times a year to the south of my country where I have a sky with bortle 2. The problem is that when I travel on winter holidays, where it is Milky Way season, 95% of the days are cloudy. and when I travel in summer, only 10-30% of the days are cloudy, but there is no milky way all night. so it is quite difficult for me if I want to have 1 whole night to photograph it. I have taken these photos when there are nights with 3-5 hours of clear moments.)
I must say, that I perfectly understand that these photos (see in the attached photo) are mostly mosaics of several long exposures. Where in my case I only make mosaics of 1 single exposure of 30-50s. Therefore, I understand that I am not going to be able to reveal that amount of red hydrogen nebulae, nor the interstellar dust that is seen on the sides of the Milky Way. But the galactic center, I did capture it without problems, just like them.
Leaving that clear, I focus on the general tones and contrasts it achieves. Those orange, yellow and red colors of the Milky Way, to those beautiful blues and even greens of the sky. In my photographs (see in the attached photo), I see a general blue throughout the sky, and a brownish yellow in the galactic center. very, very different.
So, is this due to my poor equipment, bad photo taking, bad post-processing, or a little of everything?
Any opinion, advice, tip or comment is very helpful to me. As well as if you have any good videos or tutorials that explain this in more detail.
Thank you very much in advance to all of you! Clear skies.
This post is regarding the last topic. And I am always looking for advice and help to improve my techniques and my photos in general.
Sorry for making this a bit long, but I wanted to put all the relevant information. Since maybe there may be more people in my position and this could help them.
I've been looking at my latest Milky Way photos I've taken, and there's something that has always bothered me a little. It is the color I get with respect to the Milky Way against the sky. My question is whether this comes from taking the photos, more from the processing, or both.
(You can see in my profile that my equipment is as simple as a Nikon D3300 with lenses, and a StarAdventurer 2i.
Regarding taking photos, it is also somewhat complicated. I travel 2 times a year to the south of my country where I have a sky with bortle 2. The problem is that when I travel on winter holidays, where it is Milky Way season, 95% of the days are cloudy. and when I travel in summer, only 10-30% of the days are cloudy, but there is no milky way all night. so it is quite difficult for me if I want to have 1 whole night to photograph it. I have taken these photos when there are nights with 3-5 hours of clear moments.)
I must say, that I perfectly understand that these photos (see in the attached photo) are mostly mosaics of several long exposures. Where in my case I only make mosaics of 1 single exposure of 30-50s. Therefore, I understand that I am not going to be able to reveal that amount of red hydrogen nebulae, nor the interstellar dust that is seen on the sides of the Milky Way. But the galactic center, I did capture it without problems, just like them.
Leaving that clear, I focus on the general tones and contrasts it achieves. Those orange, yellow and red colors of the Milky Way, to those beautiful blues and even greens of the sky. In my photographs (see in the attached photo), I see a general blue throughout the sky, and a brownish yellow in the galactic center. very, very different.
So, is this due to my poor equipment, bad photo taking, bad post-processing, or a little of everything?
Any opinion, advice, tip or comment is very helpful to me. As well as if you have any good videos or tutorials that explain this in more detail.
Thank you very much in advance to all of you! Clear skies.
I know I would have a done a much better job if I had Pixinsight and Russel Cromans StarXterminator, NoiseXterminator and BlurXterminator. That would cost me $500. But at some point I will have to get it.
And this bottom image is how the colors look when they are not balanced, in this case, it's a close representation of Tomas' blue tone problem (idk if you want to call it a problem, I actually like the blue tone a bit.)
