[jayman_1975]

I took this photo last year on a northern ice fishing trip at roughly midnight. It was such a beautiful night on the lake that we decided to stick it out real late and see if we could have some better luck than we had during the day. I have never seen northern lights dance like they did that night. They changed colors so many times i could barely keep up. Sadly i didnt have a tripod with me so all could do is rest the camera on the box of my atv and hope for the best. I would love someone who has much better skill than i to take a swing at this.

EDITED TO REMOVE FAILED UPLOAD ATTEMPT. PLEASE ACROLL DOWN TO FIND THE CORRECT LINK TO THE RAW IMAGE.

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Last edited by jayman_1975; 02-26-2018 at 06:12 AM.

[Adam]

That looks like a JPG file with a .DNG extension. I'd otherwise be happy to take a stab!

[jayman_1975]

That looks like a JPG file with a .DNG extension. I'd otherwise be happy to take a stab!

Hmmm. It’s a 15gb file so I figured it was the RAW file.

[Adam]

Hmmm. It’s a 15gb file so I figured it was the RAW file.

For me it's only 1.7Mb. Maybe I'm clicking in the wrong place?

But the fact that there's a thumbnail suggests that it's not a raw format. Perhaps google converted it?

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[sqrrl]

It's definitely not 15gb, loaded in about 3 sec, my connection is definitely not that good.

[jayman_1975]

Hmmm. I’ll look into this.

[Lmcfarrin]

I didn't take out the halos/aberrations. If you like where I was going i can work on it some more and upscale it if needed.

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[BigMackCam]

Yes, it's a JPEG file with a ".raw" extension Anyway, here's a quick attempt to bring it to life... I'm sure more could be done with the actual RAW file

[honey bo bo]

I don't do a lot of PP but here is an attemptBefore and After. Left the fishing rod in as 1 of the 1000 words.

[jayman_1975]

So is there a better way to share this. It appears I was wrong. This file is 13.5MB. And showing as a RAW file when I look at the original file.

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Ok lets try this

Dropbox - IMGP0019.DNG

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Ok i dont understand. Drop box must somewhat modify the file too. The original file is very dark but yet the drop box version is quite bright. Strange

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For me it's only 1.7Mb. Maybe I'm clicking in the wrong place?

But the fact that there's a thumbnail suggests that it's not a raw format. Perhaps google converted it?

Hi Adam. Thanks for trying to help. I had another look and when i click on the link it brings up the picture, then i click the pic and then up in the top right corner theres 3 little dots that say "more options" Click that and theres the option to download. When i download the file i get a 13MB dng file show up in my download folder.

[jayman_1975]

I didn't take out the halos/aberrations. If you like where I was going i can work on it some more and upscale it if needed.

This looks pretty decent. Were you able to download the full size .dng file?

[davidreilly3207]

I Felt Foreground objects were distracting. BTW, when I downloaded from dropbox it was really dark, unlike the preview on the dropbox site.

[davidreilly3207]

With Horizon leveled.

[jayman_1975]

With Horizon leveled.

Heck yeah! That looks pretty good. A little darker would really let those lights pop I think. So you were able to get the full sized RAW file from the drop box link?

Ps. You are right about the foreground objects but I couldn’t get them out of the shot because of where I had the camera sitting on my ATV box. When I edited it myself I cut that part out too but it didn’t turn out as nice as your version.

One of the guys who was there really wants to make a big print of it for his wall so I’m hoping for something that will work for that.

[savoche]

Would something like this work? Just a couple of graduated filters in Lightroom and a bit of quick cloning in Photoshop.