Last month I reprocessed an old stack and realized I'd been overediting for 3 years
Ngl, I dug up some raw stacked data from a night at Joshua Tree in 2021. I'd been running everything through aggressive sharpening and saturation boosts, like everyone in the tutorials told me. Last month I tried a softer stretch for the first time, just following the histogram, and the Lagoon Nebula actually looked better without all that noise chasing. I used to think more contrast equaled more detail, but the stars in the corners proved I was just amplifying artifacts. My neighbor, who does film photography, saw both versions and said the new one held up at print size, which stung a little. So my question is: how many of you have gone back to old data and found your workflow was the real problem, not the gear? What changed for you?