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Comparison Images

I’m posting 2 images for comparison. Which do you like best? The first image is what the camera saw and is the more realistic image. The green color in the sky is caused by airglow. The second image is my interpretation of what we would expect to perceive if we had better color vision at night (our dark vision is primarily black and white). The second image is how I usually process images, trying to make the image closer to something people can identify with. This summer I had numerous nights with marked airglow and green skies. There was a lot of wildfire smoke on the horizon which I have tried to minimize. __________________________________________. Technique: Both images made from the same captured images at 20 mm. Both images are blends made from stacked images, one set for the sky and one set for the foreground. Sky, stacked vertical panorama, 3 sets of images, 12 in set, at 13 sec, f/2.8, ISO 6400. Foreground, 9 image stack, 30 sec, f/1.8, ISO 6400.

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Uploaded on November 10, 2021