Berg Lake with Steve and Picket Fence

in #photofeed6 years ago (edited)

Solar activity has been minimal over the past couple of months. So to help me though the suffering I have been having another look using some different editing techniques at some shots from September last year. This shot is looking South towards the North Face of Mt Robson with the Milky Way rising along with the aurora related phenomena of ‘Steve’ accompanied by a ‘Picket Fence’ travelling east west above it. Berg Lake sits at an altitude of 1,646 m (5,400 ft). The North Face of Mt Robson rises 2,308m (7,572ft) out of the lake to a total height of 3,954 m (12,972 ft) and is the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada.

I had previously edited up some landscape shots of this; however noticed that I also had a few portrait shots to play with. The image has the mountain stacked from multiple frames to reduce noise; yet uses a single image of the sky and water as stacking the sky over multiple frames would remove the definition in the aurora.

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Robert Downie
Love Life, Love Photography

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Those green blobs! Great photo.

Yes there are addictive to watch those little green blobs

Very nice. stacking the darker portions of the image looks like it worked quite nicely! The aurora "dots" are an interesting effect.

I tried to take some astro shots a few nights ago, but my camera doesn't handle low light well and the cops showed up to pester me.

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Hey Mr. Ironman! I totally freaking loved this photo. Marvelous! Watching aurora is one of my dreams as well.
Can you help me with some good resources on how to make a composite shot like yours. I haven't tried it till now.

Hmm. There are lots of different ways. Using a smart object in photoshop is perhaps one of the simplest. If you search for Reducing Noise staking photos using smart media objects (something like that
http://www.tipsquirrel.com/noise-reduction-with-smart-object-stack-modes/ comes up on google, but there are lots). Astrophotography is a little more complex as you cant stack the stars that way (median stack removes all stars and mean stack produces a faint star trail); so there are some free tools like Sequator that do a good job of stacking and maintaining the stars in the sky. You can't stack an aurora shot however (other than the foreground) as the aurora is dynamic.

Great photo, the reflections look like a painting. I really enjoy this view of the aurora as well.