hellocentral

Red is pretty rare. I haven't seen one here yet this season, but often they are so faint that they are "photographic." In other words, not visible or barely visible to the naked eye.

Depending on how I color balance the photos, there can be considerably more yellow/white/pink/purple in them if the aurora is colorful. Some are just plain green with maybe a yellow tinge at the bottom, but some have stripes of colors, or bands, or a variety.

I am balancing them more and more to the "neutral" in most cases now - daylight (5500k) with enough magenta to subdue the green. In film photographs, the background is often brownish and the aurora a pale white. I don't know whether that's the result of filters (on the camera or in printing), or reciprocity failure, or all of the above. It looks nice though. With some work I can do that with Photoshop.

I shoot everything in camera raw - otherwise I'd never be able to fix the color balance.

Thanks!

Whoa! Ft Kent does look really cool! There was also a nice truss bridge in Nenana (nuh NAN uh) over the Tanana (TANuh NAH) River where the Serum Run '25 got started. My coworker has around 5 days left on the way to Nome - a 770-odd mile trip in total.