6 mo. ago • 96%

Aurora In Oregon

Shot on Sony a7iii, quickly edited in Affinity Photo

31 comments

What did it look like in person?

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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"
  
  🤮
  
  12
  
  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.
  
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- Without night mode:
  
  With night mode:
  
  7
Here in the Midwest, I got a lovely view of....

Clouds.

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- Woah! Got any pics?
  
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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.

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- 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.
  
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  I thought I would have to look north but I saw the majority of them in Vancouver looking almost straight up
  
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Was it very visible to your naked eye here? Away from light pollution a bit?

Not trying to reveal specifics, just curious!

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- I took this last night, I think it's pretty close to what it looked like to naked eye
  
  29
  
  Nice!
  
  5
  
  That's insane as it is, super pretty. No need to enhance anything. 👌😊
  
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- 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.
  
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  Thats the true dream!
  
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- 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.
  
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  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'..
  
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- Driving 40 minutes east of Bend brought us down to zero light pollution.
  
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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!

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Lies

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Holy hell, this is probably the worst edit of the aurora I've seen

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This is what I imagined when I read the word octarine

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i tried to view it but there was too much light pollution from cars

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