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Published: 2007-03-12 00:09:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 6550; Favourites: 234; Downloads: 128
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A surprise display of the northern lights, as seen from the edge of Highway 548 at Quebec Bay, roughly 50 km southeast of Sault Ste. Marie, ON. I normally monitor space weather conditions so I'm able to know when there will be a chance of seeing the northern lights, but this came as a complete surprise one night when I was already out shooting. The illumination in the foreground of this photo came from the streetlights that line the highway directly behind the camera.Location of photograph: [link]
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Thanks, and thank you for the
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This is an excellent photo! I've never actually seen aurora myself, being at the wrong latitude and all.
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Thanks, and thank you for the
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Incredibly beautiful. Definately a case of in-the-right-place-at-the-right-time!
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Thank you, and thanks for the
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I didn't know that its possible to predict where/when it happens
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It is! Sites like [link] have information about it.
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oh cool, thanks for the link!
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Thank you, and thanks for the
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Damn those digital rebels and their amazing pictures. This is a great capture! Nice work!
.moses.
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Thank you, and thanks for the
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OMG! it's so beautiful! i wish i was there... you see, here we don't have those kind of views.... oh i envy u soooo much! i'm glad you're taking advantage of these sights so we (I?) people in landlocked countries can see them... LoL!!!!
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Thanks, glad you like it, and thanks for the
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Wow thats so beautiful...the colors blend yet contrast
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Thank you, and thanks for the
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No problem...it's so beautiful
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You were in an amazing place for this to happen, the scenary combined with the lights is just divine.
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in the future, i think your aurora shots might work better if you underexpose just a tad...but you've been shooting them for a while, so maybe you've got it down just right already
and i *seriously* envy your Canaditude when it comes to things like this...wish we got the Lights around here
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Thanks for the tip. Just curious why you think underexposing would help though. I know if I set the ISO lower I could have less noise, and if I used a shorter exposure, I could capture more detail in the auroral rays, but I'd love to hear your take on it.
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my *theory* is that it might bring out the colors better...they seem a tad washed out to me. you could easily try it in photoshop with this image, not really neccessary to do it in-camera...plus the land seems a bit overexposed.
i don't actually have any experience shooting stuff like this, just my own rambling ideas
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Well I actually brightened it up quite a bit in post-processing because it originally seemed a bit underexposed, but maybe I overdid it a bit?
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i dunno...i tried bringing the midtones down and the highlights up slightly, then increasing the saturation every slightly, and it looked a little better to me. hope you don't mind me messing with your stuff; i didn't save it in any case
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I wish you had saved it, I'd like to see what the outcome was like!
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Love the colours, the stars, and the shore. T-T Why don't I see any of these where I live?
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Thanks again, and thank you for the
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You get northern lights there? Lucky. I'd love to see it in person, but no cookie at mere 49° N.
Your photos are awesome as ever, and this goes to all your recent submissions I didn't have a chance to comment on. But I feel there's something missing in them. Substance perhaps, or some underlying story behind the gorgeous, yet somewhat lifeless landscape? I think your earlier works had more of this.
But anyway, while somewhat too smoothened for my taste, I could stare at this and the other aurora picture for hours. Good job!
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Well we're only at 46.5° N, but we're also much closer to the magnetic north pole, and so we get to see them more easily than other parts of hte world at a similar latitude. And thank you for your comments.
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Yeah, I checked the location only after writing the comment and felt a bit stupid. Oh well. You're welcome anyway.
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Thank you, and thanks for the
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Stunnning image, respect once again.
How do you keep the noise acceptably low whilst shooting at 1600iso. Noise Ninja? I alway shoot digital work at 100iso to keep the noise down (i had some noise issues with one of the libraries!!), still drives me crazy. This shot looks like it has very little noise and is actually sharp!! HOW!!!???
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Thank you. I use a program called Neat Image to do my noise removal ([link] ). For shots like this, I sometimes have to run it through Neat Image a few times to get it looking really clean. To preserve a decent level of sharpness and detail, I will bring the images into Photoshop and paste the noisy image on top of filtered image, and then erase the uniform areas where the noise is most obvious so that the smoother, filtered image shows through. I'll also sometimes use the blur tool on noisy uniform areas as a quick way to smooth them out. As long as most of the detail in the more intricate areas of the photo are preserved, it should still look reasonably sharp overall.
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