Help me what did I do wrong milky way

MinAZ · Apr 17, 2021

I shot this image of the milky way. It looks very uninteresting, not like the amazing milky way images I normally see. What did I do wrong? Also, why are some of the stars purple and can it be fixed? Dragging the purple and magenta sliders do not seem to do it.

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Alen K · Apr 17, 2021

The purple is from chromatic abberation. I see red halos and blue halos and where both occur you get magenta. Did you stop the lens down? If not, that might reduce the halos. Of course, you won't then capture as much light in a fifteen-second exposure. So you will need to take multiple exposures and stack them.

Rudi P · Apr 18, 2021

Hello

I played a bit with your image in Affinity Photo and this is what I could get out of the jpeg file.
I used levels, background substraction and the defringe tool.
Hope you like the result.

Rudi

Rudi P · Apr 18, 2021

Here is a brighter version:

MinAZ · Apr 18, 2021

Rudi P said:
Here is a brighter version:

Wow okay that is amazing. Could you please tell me what you did to make such a huge difference? I am not really familiar with the techniques you mentioned, also I do not use Affinity much, so do you know if this can also be done in Photoshop?

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Andy01 · Apr 19, 2021

MinAZ said:
Rudi P said:

Here is a brighter version:

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Wow okay that is amazing. Could you please tell me what you did to make such a huge difference? I am not really familiar with the techniques you mentioned, also I do not use Affinity much, so do you know if this can also be done in Photoshop?

Have a read of Roger's notes on PP on clarkvision.com. He has some good suggestions on a process to follow to stretch the RAW image.

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