Oh no! another Aurora image

[Ken Rennie]

A 2 shot merge with the foreground a 30s exposure and the sky at 5s. No overall saturated applied, in fact parts have been desaturated although the contrast increase has added a fair bit of saturation to the entire image. I have spent a fair amount of time straightening the buildings almost overcoming the lean caused by pointing a 16mm lens at the sky. This is my favourite image of the entire evening and is the only purple image that is believable. Ken PS as of 19:10 tonight Friday 17th my Aurora alert has gone to Red, is it too much to hope for another show especially as we have clear skies here.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice work - this was well worth the effort you put into the composite.

 

[JimFox]

Nice work - this was well worth the effort you put into the composite.

I wouldn't call this a composite. And the phrase composite has gotten really twisted in some of the FaceBook groups I frequent. It sounds like this is a 2 shot pano.

 

[JimFox]

Awesome work on this pano Ken! I really like that ground layer. It adds a great level of meaning to the image with the Aurora shining away above the sleepy villages.

I just checked, it looks like it's at KP5 right now, and your area should have some pretty nice lights going on Ken.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Awesome work on this pano Ken! I really like that ground layer. It adds a great level of meaning to the image with the Aurora shining away above the sleepy villages.

I just checked, it looks like it's at KP5 right now, and your area should have some pretty nice lights going on Ken.

Thanks Jim. When the level was high it was still a beautiful early evening with warm sunshine in a blue sky. The level has now collapsed, oh well 1 magic night a month is enough for anybody. Ken

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Lovely image Ken.

 

[MonikaC]

Wonderful colors. Looks like there was a corona forming.

 

[JimFox]

Thanks Jim. When the level was high it was still a beautiful early evening with warm sunshine in a blue sky. The level has now collapsed, oh well 1 magic night a month is enough for anybody. Ken

Yeah, I had seen it collapsed. That's a shame.

Oh and I was going to add to your comment where you said you hadn't added any saturation. If you saw the video timelapse I did, it's the reds in it that make me cringe as they somehow turned a new shade of nuclear on me. I plan to redo that overhead timelapse completely.

But I am currently working on a timelapse from another camera from the 10th. This time I am really watching the saturation. The hard thing for me with a timelapse is that the colors came and went. So if I push the colors at all when they were weaker, then in the parts where the aurora was going crazy, the colors are blowing out, well the reds are. With a timelapse I am left to using global edits that apply to all of the frames as I want smooth transition's during the night and not jumps in the look of it.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Really great Ken, what a show! Love the framing you got with the UWA lens, and all your work to fix perspective has resulted in a really wonderful result.

ML