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Old 17-08-2009, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Exfso View Post
I have found when doing long exposures with my Modded 40D that even though the images have plenty of color and nice and sharp, that the stars are nearly all just a bland burnt out white color. I have tried various methods in PS to correct this, but nothing seems to work. Does anyone have any ideas on what may be a satifactory solution. The attached Trifid shows this up I think, as I cannot see any blue or orange larger stars.
If you lower your ISO it will help keeping star colors. One thing that will make a big difference also is to use median combine rather than sum combine when stacking your subs. By the time you bring your pic in PS for post-processing you shouldn't burn anything.
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