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hmmm, well I think I would say it depends on your eyes as well! Some people have excellent eyes and can see much fainter objects than others, or see Jupiter's 4 big moons naked eye! (I'm envious of them).
But what ever happens, give yourself time to train your eyes!! Really, it's very important. I usually say to people give yourself a year to get used to looking through a scope. For example draw Jupiter when you start out, and most people draw a circle with two dark lines across it. But come back a year later and those two lines will have details such as waves and crinkles, festoons protruding down into the equatorial region and you might even see some white ovals.
Filters don't equal approximate colour at all. Colour is difficult to see at the best of times, and again, give yourself time to see it. I always wondered what the books where talking about when they mentioned the colours of the stars, such as Capella is yellow, Arcturus is 'red'. It took me a year or more to start noticing this detail - which is now quite obvious!
For short exposure photos - hmm, it would depend on the exposure, I think. How short? Sometimes you would see more, sometimes less, I suppose. I know that sounds strange - perhaps someone else can say it better.
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