My kid asked me why the stars in my photos don't look like the ones in her book

I was showing my 8-year-old a picture I took of the Orion Nebula from my backyard in Flagstaff, and she pointed to a cartoon drawing in her science book. She said, 'Yours is all fuzzy and gray, but theirs is pink and swirly.' It made me think about how we edit reality to make it more exciting. Do you ever tone down the colors to keep things looking real?

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derek_coleman11d ago

Honestly, it's the other way around for me. I have to boost the color a ton just to get any hint of it to show up. Our eyes are so bad at night.

quinn95811d ago

Right? Why is everything just shades of gray after dark? I tried taking pictures of my garden last week at dusk, and the purple flowers looked like muddy blobs. Had to crank the saturation so high in editing it looked fake just to get the color back. Our night vision is basically useless for detail.