expose to the right for the night sky
i was out last night trying to get a shot of a meteor (i got one and will post it later). while i was there i was using a technique called expose to the right for the night sky
this is an example of what it is
basically it means when you take a photo you want the histogram pushed to the right,ideally as much as you can with out clipping the highlights. then you edit it in lightroom to bring out detail. the photo will look overexposed when you look at it on your camera
here is an example.
this is the shot straight from the camera
this is from reimers ranch. its iso 3200,f2.8 for 30 seconds. its not the greatest shot since i was aiming for meteors instead of something like the milky way
you will see it looks overexposed heres the same photo after some quick lightroom work. I adjusted the white balance to 3800,brought contrast up 98,highlights down 63,in the curves section i brought darks down 39 and shadows 7. i raised the dehaze slider to 48
in this one you can even see the andomeda galaxy which is almost lost in teh glare in the first shot
all in all it was 2 minutes of lightroom work.
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before editing
after
