That one photo of the Orion Nebula everyone posts is way over processed

I was scrolling through the sub last night and saw the same nebula shot three times with these crazy blue and purple swirls that just don't look real. I work with industrial cameras at my warehouse job (checking for defects on parts, you know) so I know a bit about color balance. The real Orion Nebula has more of a pinkish-red glow with subtle gray dust lanes, not that neon candy look. Has anyone else noticed this trend of cranking up the saturation until it looks like a 90s laser show?

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kellyg144d ago

Did you ever see that thread where someone took a raw photo of the moon and turned it into like a tie-dye shirt? I swear people just want their pics to pop on their phone screens so bad they forget what the actual sky looks like. The pinkish-gray Orion is way more interesting to me than the neon stuff cause you can actually see the gas clouds doing their thing.

thea1433d ago

3am me with my phone camera would turn Orion into a blurry potato every time lmao