Shot on Sony a7iii, quickly edited in Affinity Photo
What did it look like in person?
this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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Yeah these mega saturated pics are unbelievably disingenuous
It's like one-upmanship of "the aurora I saw was way more colourful than the one you saw, you must be so jealous"
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They're not mega saturated, they're overexposed, which isn't atypical when photographing at night. Most pictures you'd see of the milky way were captured this way.
The original one containing every color of the fucking rainbow is definitely oversaturated
I brought the brightness of the photo up for sure here so that it looks interesting and not dim/dull on your display.
I can tell you from experience though that we were able to see the red, blue, violet, green, and sometimes the yellow on the horizon unaided. Put simply, it was incredible and I wanted this photo to provide the same feeling.
Hereโs a photo I transferred to my phone with the transfer app doing a simple jpeg conversion. 2.5 second exposure at ISO 5000, 36mm:
This is perhaps slightly brighter than what I recall seeing on the horizon.
Without night mode:
With night mode:
Here in the Midwest, I got a lovely view of....
Clouds.
Woah! Got any pics?
Aw man, it came and I missed it? I need more details. About what time? Where at? Facing which direction? I kept an eye out last night but didn't see anything before bed.
They're going to be visible again tonight
Basically find a dark place and look to the North (though many of my family and friends saw them while being in the city)
Depending on how far south you are in the state it should be visible
I'm in Washington so it was much easier to see. Though I went to bed early and missed it too.
I thought I would have to look north but I saw the majority of them in Vancouver looking almost straight up
Yeah, for us they were pretty much straight up too.
Was it very visible to your naked eye here? Away from light pollution a bit?
Not trying to reveal specifics, just curious!
I took this last night, I think it's pretty close to what it looked like to naked eye
Nice!
That's insane as it is, super pretty. No need to enhance anything. ๐๐
I didn't see this one, but when I saw it in Iceland (in a dark place with limited light pollution) , it was taking up basically the entire sky and was glorious. I actually thought it was MORE stunning than any photos I'd ever seen, especially because it's a way different experience when it's in motion and everywhere. It was actually the event that convinced me to get a nice camera, since my phone "long-exposure" shots were so shitty haha.
Thats the true dream!
I wasn't even in a super remote place or anything; just right on the outskirts of Reykjavรญk: 64.162710, -22.014917
Probably could have been even more insane if I had gone a bit more remote. But if you ever plan to travel to Iceland, I'd recommend to go during a time you can see it, and give it a shot! (I went in early October, seemed like a pretty good time for photography, since it seemed like it was golden hour lasted like half the day)
Unless you are in an area with low light pollution, it doesn't look like it does in photos. You can't exactly increase the exposure time of your eyeballs :D
You see like purple/orange streaks in the sky, still beautiful, but the cameras exaggerate it.
Okay, because I got an acceptable amount of aurora after adding the "enhance" filter on my Pixel, taken from my driveway, through light pollution of town. But I couldn't see shit but faint streaks. I could tell it was dancin'..
I dont have a pixel, but if there's like a "pro" mode in the camera app, you can play around with the shutter speed and expose for longer. After the event the sky looked normal, but I could still get the purple green with my phone camera!
I'll give that a try tonight, thank you for the tip!
On the Pixel I'd recommend the astrophotography mode which exposes for 4 to 5 minutes, it works very well.
You need to use the night mode in the camera and then put the phone on a tripod or lean it against something so it won't move, after a few seconds the shutter button will turn into a stars symbol. Then press the shutter button and it will tell you how long you should leave the phone there.
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Driving 40 minutes east of Bend brought us down to zero light pollution.
Holy hell, this is probably the worst edit of the aurora I've seen
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Dang I'm in a northern climate and though we get them occasionally I've never seen anything like what people have been posting. Typically I see green and blue dancing waves, but this looks like a full sky, full color gradient. Looks absolutely amazing!
i tried to view it but there was too much light pollution from cars