I'm currently planning a winter trip to Finland, which led to looking into how digital photographs of the northern lights differ from the experience of seeing them in person. It's complicated: "Like most photographers, I routinely use adjustments in Photoshop... But this was an entirely unfamiliar situation. Here I was making no adjustments at all, yet feeling as though my image still lacked integrity."
The Truth and Lies of Those Aurora Photos You See
We’ve all seen those images over the past few years (popping up in our Facebook feeds or in the media) depicting spectacular displays of the Aurora
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