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Also, be aware that colours show up in photographs, but with visual observing they are far less obvious, if they appear at all. It's all down to our eyes being an imperfect apparatus.
Whereas with post processing, you can easily bump contrast, which will increase colour saturation as well.
In my (admittedly limited) experience, I have never gotten more detail from an image than I saw visually on the day, but the details I did get on the photo were *right on the edge* of the limits of perception. It takes time, both in terms of time on the night teasing out those details from the wobbling atmosphere, and time in terms of practice; putting in the hours to pull as much detail from the object as possible.
I often think astronomy is kind of like an extreme sport for the eyes. :-)
-Markus
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