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| Posted: Mon Nov 2nd, 2015 19:06 |
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Judith
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Hehe yes, the view is fab. The house was a total renovation job, unfortunately, and were only halfway through it. Well, despite the internet being ablaze with aurora predictions tonight, there is not even a vague glimmer of green in the sky. Maybe tomorrow...
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| Posted: Mon Nov 2nd, 2015 19:18 |
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Robert
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My thoughts exactly Eric. Well I went out but not until about 10pm, I just got in a few minutes ago, haven't looked at the images but I did crank the ISO up to 1600 just for you Eric! It was a pretty cool evening so I didn't blow any fuses but I did get it back to ISO 400 as soon as I had taken half a dozen pix. I will try the median blend on them when I get time, the noise @ ISO 1600 is horrendous. This week is going to be even more hectic than usual, not just knocking my own home to bits, a friend has asked me to knock hers to bits too!!! The aurora didn't show, I was probably too late. I went out at about 6pm and the mist was thick and swirling. However at about 10pm the mist had cleared to a clear starlit sky, so I went to one of my elevated locations at about 250 Metres (820Ft) elevation, I did take quite a few pix of the moon, stars, and the estuary. Mostly multiple exposures of the same scene. I have been a bit more careful with my technique. Tripod clamped tight, delay shutter, infra red remote and no touchy camera. Still have images from the Ulswater trip to process, so when I have the energy I'm going to be busy. Must get to bed! Edit: I couldn't go to bed without loading the 70 odd images into Lightroom. In one sequence I think there is a trace of the aurora, there is some lightness moving around in one field, nothing distinct but moving quickly between frames there is something there. If it's fine and clear tomorrow I will go back up and do a time lapse for as long as I can.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2015 12:41 |
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Eric
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Robert wrote:My thoughts exactly Eric. It was probably the D200 venting steam after having to do ISO1600.  I looked out of my window just after reading Judith's prediction and there was a magnificent green light stretching right across the sky. The sport centre across the road had its floodlit soccer pitches in use. 
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| Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2015 14:31 |
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Robert
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Eric wrote: It was probably the D200 venting steam after having to do ISO1600. Not sure I will be repeating the ISO 1600 experiment. I am processing last nights images now, the ISO 1600 images are rubbish. I have done the median stack process in PS and using four images of ISO 400 and I get a quite acceptable result, using the ISO 1600 images it looks like a snowstorm! When I have finished I will also try your stacking method so we can compare. Will try to post some results this evening but my eyes are glazing over already!
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| Posted: Tue Nov 3rd, 2015 15:49 |
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Judith
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I was out in the garden earlier. Very bright glow In the sky and nothing to do with football lol.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 4th, 2015 02:08 |
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Robert
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Will refrain from suggesting it might be caused by a tipple of Highland Malt, not wishing to provoke a severe handbagging!
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| Posted: Wed Nov 4th, 2015 02:14 |
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Robert
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My efforts to process my images yesterday were curtailed by the emergency generator apparently running out of fuel. We were plunged into darkness mid evening. The village had been on an emergency generator for two days since the local high voltage substation packed up. This may explain why my UPS kept cutting in for the last few months and the lights have been flickering a lot.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 4th, 2015 03:38 |
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Judith
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Excuses, excuses, Robert... Here is one of my highland malt infused images from last night. Attachment: image.jpg (Downloaded 33 times)
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| Posted: Wed Nov 4th, 2015 04:01 |
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Robert
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Wonderful! Have you thought of doing a time lapse? Not that hard but you need to use smallish (low res) JPEG's else with the 810 you will have massive files to process then it will throw away 90% of the file size. This is one example, there are many more out there. http://digital-photography-school.com/capturing-the-northern-lights-in-timelapse-video/
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| Posted: Wed Nov 4th, 2015 05:10 |
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jk
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Very good Judith. You might have found yourself a niche market. Aurora lights and B&B. Is that a view from inside the house? Even better as then you can offer some nice malts to accompany the shooting! Even if it is outside they might need something to warm themselves. 10% agents fees apply
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