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What the Naked Eye Sees in the Night Sky Compared to What the Camera Can Capture

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The Internet is teeming with photographs and videos of the starry night heaven that dazzle the optics and tickle the imagination, but have you ever wondered how the imagery compares to what photographer's naked eye really saw while the camera was taking a picture?

Lensman inefekt69 recently decided to answer that question past creating the photos above. On the left is what the human eye could come across in the dark, outdoor field, and on the right is the photo he shared online.

The photo was captured at a well known tourist spot in Western Australia chosen The Pinnacles, located two hours away from Perth in Nambung National Park. This item location shown rates about ane or two on the Bortle Calibration of night heaven darkness, so it's largely free from light pollution and a great place to discover the nighttime heaven with the naked center.

Different people take unlike abilities to encounter in low light, so inefekt69's is far from scientific, but hither's what he did: he did his best to note what his naked eye can run across while capturing his long exposure photos of the heaven.

Hither's the photo as it appeared straight out of camera. It was a 30-second exposure at ISO 3200 and an aperture of f/2.8.

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inefekt69 then used Lightroom to recreate the details of what he actually saw. He adjusted the exposure on his RAW photo to friction match the darker appearance of the scene, and he besides desaturated the sky to remove the color captured by the camera — humans aren't good at detecting color in low light.

He then ran a noise filter on the image to remove all the dimmer stars that he couldn't see. Finally, he adjusted the photos dissimilarity and black levels with sliders and adjustment brushes to make the sky "expect more natural." Here's the resulting epitome that shows what he actually saw on that night:

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