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Two things I wanna point out about the techy stuff.

Firstly, the scene always always looks brighter on screen in the night than it actually captures. In this case I ended up adding another 2 stops of exposure in post, which is very naughty. Pushing an underexposed file at high ISO is a great way to maximise noise!

Second, my preference is to edit as little as possible, and dial down the saturation. The defaults are too intense for me, and very misleading.

#Photography #Auroras #LumixS9
Capture One interface, showing all my tweaks. A lot of exposure lifting in this file, and reducing contrast in general. I lift the white point for these very gentle moments. When the aurora is dancing hard I need to drop my highlights to avoid blow outs. Just depends what phase of the nordlys we're shooting.
Side by side look at before and after editing. I'm going for a lighter sky, to pull in a little of that moonlit night.
Some folks prefer a darker and punchier scene. It's a night sky after all so that's not unusual :) You get more colour when you dial up the contrast. If you're curating a set of images, you might want to balance your aurora to run alongside the other landscape scenes perhaps. It's a creative decision.