Aurora Eagle

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Description

Northern Maine, about 14 years ago
Mission accomplished!! I have been looking for this image for at least 5 years.
I’ve been searching through files repeatedly, and finally remembered I stuck some images on CD’s when I was deciding how to store things.

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Technical Details

Lots of updating , since it was quite noisy.
Enlarged with Gigapixel 8, run-through DxO Pure Raw and touched up with Topaz.
The old D1X, I’m pretty sure. No idea about the settings, since it’s so old. I remember I took a whole lot of shots, hoping for the best.

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Sandy,

That is a wild photograph. I can clearly see the eagle. Even stars?!, on a D1x? Man that was a long time ago. Did the D1x have good noise profile? I have a D2x and anything above ISO 400 is basically junk.

In any case, it’s a great photo.

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Hi, Youssef -

I honestly don’t remember. I suppose I thought the noise control was ok, since this was about my first foray into a real pro camera and I had nothing to compare it to. Topaz’s NR even back then was not great, but ok for then - incredibly improved by now, of course, and some of my old stuff is worth a rejuvenation.
THIS file was pretty bad, and I was fairly happy with DxO’s “Rescue”. This was actually pretty dull and with poor contrast originally.

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That’s a crazy aurora! And a very nice capture for back then. So much improvement in recent years is due to better monitors.