I have been using the light pollution filter but my images become heavily red shifted and look only passingly like reference photos I see elsewhere.

See my second image of the Orion Nebula vs my first (attached) for examples of no light pollution filter versus the filter being turned on.

I posted an image of the monkey head nebula last night that I took with the light pollution filters but I only posted after painstakingly adjusting the colors to be closer to the typical brown seen in most images. I still couldn't get it anywhere near what I was aiming for.

I live just outside in a big city, but I think it might be easier to adjust for the the effects of light pollution in post processing than it is to adjust for the red saturation that the light pollution filter brings.

I'm going to begin testing this tonight but... any thoughts or personal anecdotes on the matter?

is the light pollution filter worth it?