The dark secret to photographing the perfect rocket launch

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The dark secret to photographing the perfect rocket launch
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Expose for the flame.

, which took place from KSC on Oct. 5 at noon local time, when the sun brightens everything the most. It's a nice, straightforward photo of an amazingly cool rocket launch — Crew-5 sent four astronauts to the orbiting lab — but the flames look white. There's no detail.

So, what do you do? Pull down your exposure and edit the photo to brighten other settings in post processing. Make the image so it almost seems too dark. For smartphone cameras, you're obviously not going to get as close as the close-up example images here, but the principle is the same. Even from far away, with a phone or professional camera, under-exposing the image makes the light from those engines a little less blinding and allows more of their detail to come through.

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