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Debate: Did I waste 3 hours on a bad photo or learn a valuable skill?
So I spent last Saturday trying to stack a Milky Way shot from a dark site in Vermont. I used DeepSkyStacker for the first time and it took me 3 hours to get a decent result, but the final image still had weird color bands. Now I'm wondering if that time was a total loss or if I actually learned something useful for next time. Some folks say you should just crank up your ISO and skip stacking, others say it's the only way to get clean detail. What do you think, is stacking worth that kind of time investment or am I just stubborn? Has anyone else had a photo that took way longer than it should have?
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rubys801mo ago
My buddy wasted a whole night once trying to stack aurora shots from a light polluted spot near Boston. Got nothing usable but figured out his flats were all wrong because he didn't clean his sensor first.
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