amy974•26d ago

Update: That redditor who said my Moon shots were overprocessed was absolutely right

So about 3 weeks ago someone in this sub told me my Moon composite looked "too cooked" and that I was crushing the shadows. I got defensive at first because I spent hours on it. But I went back and compared my raw stack to the final edit and yeah, they were totally right. The detail I thought I was pulling out was just noise and sharpening artifacts. I tried reprocessing it with way less aggression and it actually looks more natural now. Has anyone else had that moment where you realized you were overdoing it?

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beth_reed26d ago

I read somewhere that our eyes naturally prefer less contrast in Moon photos than we think.

ray_miller8426d agoTop Commenter

beth, that "eyes naturally prefer less contrast" thing is probably true for me because my eyes are basically potato quality at this point. I spent years squinting through chainsaw dust and now everything looks like a washed out watercolor. So if I take a Moon photo with low contrast, my brain thinks it looks just fine because that's how I see the world now. But I bet if someone with 20/20 vision looked at it they'd say it looks like a gray blob. Which is honestly how most of my photos look anyway. Maybe my eyes have been lying to me this whole time.

noaht1525d ago

Wait, you're telling me people actually see more detail than what shows up in my photos? @ray_miller84 might be right that our eyes are just lying to us about what's really sharp.