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GX8 v G6 long exposures at night

Started Dec 9, 2015 | Photos thread
Jorginho Forum Pro • Posts: 15,370
Re: Neither looks good.

xelnt wrote:

Jorginho wrote:

I understand you want to show us the differences and the differences are clear.

When I look specifically at the pics I would say it is overexposed. There is no need to see the beach and all other uninteresting things in the foreground. But with F1.8 and ISO2500 there was not much of a visible aurora to speak of clearly so we would probably see nothing if you exposed "right".

I'm not sure you don't understand what I was doing here sorry - this was not about the composition of the photo or the Aurora - it is about how the cameras compared in long exposures and the shadow detail they picked up. The un-edited photo is by no means over exposed. In post I pushed the exposure by +3 to see how cleanly the shadow detail had been resolved. And I'll disagree about foregrounds - in Aurora photography quite often it is just as much the foreground as the background that makes a photo.

I am sure it can be. But not in this case to my mind, the foreground is just a mess. Sometimes it can be very usefull, I agree.

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