{"id":36220,"title":"First time shooting northern lights on film","author":"MindfulMarmot","permalink":"https://www.reddit.com/r/analog/comments/1oyz34a/first_time_shooting_northern_lights_on_film/","description":"Well as we know the northern lights were poppin' off for much of the US and Canada last week so as a new film photographer I frantically loaded up some film one night to see if I could make anything of it. Just seeking some advice on how to fix the mistakes I clearly made here - these images are the only real salvageable ones from basically a whole roll. The rest were extremely dark and noisy.\n\nShot on Pentax MX w/ f/2.8 28mm lens on a tripod w/ Kodak Ultramax 400. All were shot wide open with 30-45sec exposure. Self-developed and scanned w/ Silverfast/Plustek scanner and converted with Negative Lab Pro, base settings and minimal edits. Seems like maybe I should have exposed longer? Any tips would be appreciated!","score":109,"nsfw":false,"grayscale":false,"timestamp":1763331831,"sprocket":false,"camera_make":"pentax","film_make":"kodak","film_type":"ultramax 400","film_speed":400,"focal_length":28,"aperture":"f/2.8","images":[{"resolution":"low","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/3518c022-2099-4387-b73c-481ccb07629e.jpeg","width":720,"height":485},{"resolution":"medium","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/0b3f5a2f-943e-4317-b766-af6b7f400f1b.jpeg","width":1080,"height":728},{"resolution":"high","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/ff3e72a2-90c1-4f83-b1f7-30d9114be743.jpeg","width":1440,"height":971},{"resolution":"raw","url":"https://d3i73ktnzbi69i.cloudfront.net/54342e24-43a7-4790-92f0-5409c5273f2b.jpeg","width":3272,"height":2206}],"colors":[{"hex":"#9d2113","css":"firebrick","html":"red","percent":0.25298028},{"hex":"#481c16","css":"maroon","html":"red","percent":0.21168344},{"hex":"#f77064","css":"salmon","html":"red","percent":0.19720996},{"hex":"#f13e1c","css":"orangered","html":"orange","percent":0.17928946},{"hex":"#060d0f","css":"black","html":"black","percent":0.15883686}],"keywords":[{"word":"lights","weight":0.5},{"word":"northern","weight":0.5}]}