Good aurora tonight so a few of us went up and took some shots. -4F at the top of the “hill” but not a bad scene. Tough shooting though with all the spot lights to deal with.
I’m learning how to play with masks and the color-correction module in Darktable (5.0).
Let’s see what folks come up with off this one!
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Gave it a shot…color balance and tone eq to try to highlight the aurora while minimizing the glare from the light, profiled denoise out of habit, contrast eq for smoothing…as well as some other minor adjustments.
dt 5.0
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Here’s my fairly simple rendition. I didn’t see any need to get too fancy with masks, I used two instances of “color balance rgb” with inverted copies of a gradient mask, and used these to adjust the contrast and brightness via the brilliance sliders. Thanks for sharing!
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or with a little bit brighter northern lights:
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This scene would lend itself to a gradient neutral density filter to tame the challenging lighting. Nice capture.
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where is this if the question is allowed?
It’s outside of Fairbanks, AK at a NOAA tracking station. The antennas are 13 meters in diameter with a few 5 meter antennas sprinkled in there.
Great challenge, many thanks for sharing and congrats for your beautiful shot. Here is my approach (Darktable 5.0)
