Northern Lights in Norway (XT20).

edorf_71 wrote:

Bob Tullis wrote:

michaeladawson wrote:

edorf_71 wrote:

deednets wrote:

Must be interesting to watch the show, always wondered how this actually pans out when you are there??

For me - and this is possibly a personal thing - the white balance is way off. If you could provide the RAW for the last image I woul dbe very keen to have a play with it??

Thanks for posting!!

Deed

Thanks Deed. I use long exposures (30sec) so the real thing might not be that much dramatic but always nice to watch. Reg. WB I used awb and adjusted some in post to get that very nice greens in the Lights. So your observation was a good one.

Comment on post-processing... if your desire was to bring out the greens of the lights there are other ways to do that besides changing the WB. I'd be interested to see what you would get if you set the WB to something proper for a normal night sky shot and then brought out the greens by using something like the HSL panel to bring out the greens.

Hmmm. Seems to me there's blue in the sky that isn't obscured by the aurora or yellow-ish light pollution evidence. . . it doesn't look so wrong to me.

Very nice work, Edorf.

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Thanks Bob!

WB is a little tricky in such shots so its a little trial & error. You are absolutely right reg light pollution as there is a major city (Trondheim) and a smaller one in that direction. The verical shot was in a northern and different direction.

I saw my first northern lights in Finland this March. It really is an extraordinary experience. The best moments were when it was quickly moving across the sky. Even with relatively short exposures (4 to 10 sec) you cannot really freeze that. No idea whether video could do that. Or timelapse, Or set the camera on interval shooting and enjoy the show.

I'd be interested to know what the Temp and Tint values were, both as captured and as processed. Mine were mostly around 4900K, tint +10

In your last shot there is light area at middle height, about a third from the left that I think should not be green? There is a risk here in overprocessing. Not saying yours are, but I've seen shots that were IMO enhanced to much.